This is one of my most favorite movies. I find myself whistling or humming the main theme when I’m very happy. It’s a real nice instrumental soundtrack.

This is supposed to be a funny and heartwarming story, isn’t it? Where was it? Yes it features a cute kid, a hippie and two of the nicest bikers in history, but the biggest letdown of the film was Kikujiro himself. He may have been well portrayed, but I hated him. He was an asshole abusive dad figure. Nearly everything good that happened to the kid in the film was not because of Kikujiro, but was dispite Kikujiro. This movie did not live up to its reviews.

I swear, this has to be the most heartwarmingly fun movie I’ve seen in my entire life. Kikujiro follows a little boy called Masuo trying to meet his estranged mother for the first time, and the slacker guy with a crazy sense of morals who has to get him there. When it all goes wrong, the people they meet on the way find ways to make Masuo’s summer a whole heap of fun. It’s silly humour easily matches Western counterparts like Kevin Smith or Monty Python and there’s absolutely no reason why anyone wouldn’t love this film to a rabid smooshy bloody death.