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Actors: Masanobu Ando, Ken Kaneko, Leo Morimoto
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Kids Return
KIDS RETURN has been directed by japanese writer-director Takeshi Kitano in 1996.

Shinji and Masaru are friends. They don't know what to do with their life and are spending their time harrassing their schoolmates. Until the day Masaru is knocked down by one of his victims's muscular friends. Then, he and Shinji, decide to learn boxing and enter the local sportsclub.

Highly recommended.

--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar




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Plot
Time/era of movie: - 1980's-1999
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Kids: - committing crimes - boozing - general coming of age story
Kind of sports story: - boxing
If a parody... of - gangsters/crime
Sports story? Yes
Age group - trouble in high school

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - scholar
Age: - a teen
Hair color? - brunette (Black)
Hair type - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - (man) muscular
Events of movie makes character more... - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - Japanese
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - very athletic

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - (man) very skinny
Ethnicity/Nationality - Japanese

Main Adversary
Identity: - general circumstances

Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East Yes
Asian country: - Japan
Misc setting - school - sports arena - bar

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel... - concerned
Non-American film? Yes
What language? - Japanese
Subtitles? - Yes
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Orchestra/classical
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