Film

Kids Return 1996

Directed by Takeshi Kitano

  • Drama, Crime
  • 107 min

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Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.

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Contemplative, prestige, contemporary and character-led.

  • contemplativerelentless
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • resolvedopen-ended

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