Director: Takeshi Kitano
Genres: Comedy Drama
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Following his 1995 brush with death in the form of a motorcycle accident, actor/comedian/writer/director Takeshi_Kitano spins this wistful -- if bleak -- tale about a pair of high school buddies and their inevitable slide into adulthood. Bumptious Masaru (Kenichi_Kaneko) and his quiet sidekick, Shinji (Masanobu_Ando), spend much of their time harassing teachers and shaking down students instead of going to school. At one point they dangle a large anatomically correct doll before the class window of a particularly maligned teacher. One day, one of their favorite marks brings along a more skilled street punk to thwart his tormentors. Their thrashing is so thorough that Masaru drags Shinji to a boxing gym. There they learn the ways of pugilism, but it turns out that only Shinji has a gift for the sport. As Shinji rises in boxing rank, Masaru drifts away from his friend and joins a yakuza gang. Jonathan Crow, Rovi


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