Asakusa Kid

2021 Japanese film

Asakusa Kid

Poster

Japanese name

Kanji

浅草キッド

Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Akakusa Kiddo

Directed by

Gekidan Hitori

Written by

Gekidan Hitori

Based on

"Asakusa Kid"
by Takeshi Kitano

Starring

Yo Oizumi
Yuya Yagira

Cinematography

Fūta Takagi

Edited by

Junnosuke Hogaki

Music by

Takashi Ohmama

Production
companies

Django Film
Nikkatsu

Distributed by

Netflix

Release date

December 9, 2021 (2021-12-09)

Running time

122 minutes

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Asakusa Kid (Japanese: 浅草キッド, Hepburn: Asakusa kiddo) is a 2021 Japanese film written and directed by Gekidan Hitori and starring Yo Oizumi and Yuya Yagira.^[1]^[2] It is a biopic based on the apprenticeship of Takeshi Kitano by Senzaburo Fukami, and adapted from Kitano's 1988 memoir of the same name.^[3]

Cast

Yo Oizumi as Senzaburo Fukami
Yuya Yagira as Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi)
Mugi Kadowaki as Chiharu
Nobuyuki Tsuchiya as Beat Kiyoshi
Ayumu Nakajima
Yūsuke Furusawa
Nana Komaki
Yōko Ōshima
Hiroyuki Onoue as Hachiro Azuma
Morio Kazama as Jun Tayama
Honami Suzuki as Mari Fukami

References

^ "Asakusa Kid review – the pain behind waves of laughters". Ready Steady Cut. 10 December 2021. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
^ "Asakusa Kid (2021) Review: Alluring Take on the Rags-To-Riches Tale". Leisure Byte. 9 December 2021. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
^ "Netflix movie review: Asakusa Kid – Takeshi Kitano biopic charts the Japanese comedian and filmmaker's rise from strip club beginnings". SCMP. 3 December 2021. Retrieved December 9, 2021.