Kids Return (1996)
Kizzu ritân
We haven't even started.
107 min
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.
- Release date
- July 27, 1996
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Budget
- $125,000
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Trailer
Cast
- Masanobu Andô as Shinji Takagi
- Ken Kaneko as Masaru Miyawaki
- Leo Morimoto as Homeroom Teacher
- Hatsuo Yamaya as Boxing Club Manager
- Mitsuko Oka as Sachiko's Mother
- Yûko Daike as Sachiko
- Ryô Ishibashi as Local Yakuza Chief
- Susumu Terajima as No 2 In Local Gang
- Moro Morooka as Hayashi
- Michisuke Kashiwaya as Hiroshi
- Atsuki Ueda as Reiko
- Masami Shimojō as Yakuza Chairman
- Kanji Tsuda as Kazuo
- Yôjin Hino as Taxi Office Worker
- Ren Ōsugi as Taxi Passenger
- Baiken Jukkanji as Yakuza
- Makoto Ashikawa as Teacher Hashida
- Sei Hiraizumi as Scale Company Boss
- Yoshiyuki Morishita as Man in the Restaurant
- Kôtarô Yoshida as Eagle Asuka
- Seiji Kurasaki as Senior Friend at a Gym
- Kyôsuke Yabe as Hanayama
- Kankurō Kudō as High School Student
- Peking Genji as High School Student trying Comedy
Crew
- Takeshi Kitano · Director
- Takeshi Kitano · Writer
- Masayuki Mori · Producer
- Yasushi Tsuge · Producer
- Takio Yoshida · Producer
- Joe Hisaishi · Composer
- Katsumi Yanagijima · Cinematographer
- Takeshi Kitano · Editor
- Hirohide Shibata · Production designer