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‘Asakusa Kid’ Review: Netflix Film Spotlights Takeshi Kitano’s Formative Years Learning Comedy in a Japanese Strip Joint

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Richard Kuipers For much of its running time, “Asakusa Kid” is a safe, traditional and easily enjoyable biographical drama about the scrappy early career of legendary Japanese comedian-actor-author-filmmaker “Beat” Takeshi Kitano.

When the handsomely packaged Netflix movie injects the verve and invention Kitano is celebrated for, it shines much more brightly.

Though it doesn’t offer the penetrating insight into Kitano that many viewers would be hoping for, this adaptation of his memoir by writer-director Gekidan Hitori (“A Bolt From the Blue”) does provide a respectful and touching portrait of Kitano’s mentor Senzaburo Fukami, the master entertainer whose fame and fortune declined sharply as Kitano’s career started to soar.

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