Kikujiro (1999) on Netflix
Masao is nine and lives with his grandmother in Tokyo. A photograph of the mother he has never met gives him an address. Kikujiro, the neighbor, is ordered to take him.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb7.7/1023,876 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes61%
Trailer
Plot summary
Masao is nine years old and lives with his grandmother in an old part of Tokyo. A parcel comes to the house, and in it he finds a photograph of the mother he has never met, along with an address in Toyohashi. He decides to go and see her. Kikujiro is a neighbor of the grandmother, and his wife insists that he go with the boy, telling the grandmother that the two are off to the beach. Kikujiro is lazy and brash and does not take the trip seriously, spending their money on track cycling bets.
Cast
- Nezumi Imamuraas An-chan
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kikujiro (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Takeshi Kitano based the title character of Kikujiro on his own father, Kikujiro Kitano, a gambler who struggled to feed his family and pay the rent; the film's story itself was not drawn from him.
- Joe Hisaishi's "Summer", a track on the Kikujiro album, became one of his most famous compositions and was later re-arranged and used for Toyota Corolla commercials.
