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Movie poster: Kids (2008)
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2008 · 109 min Fantasy Drama
5.9 / 10 · TMDB

Asato is a young man who returns to a slummy neighbourhood (referred to as 'The Street') to be near his Mum who is in prison. He is able to transfer other people's injuries and is unable to walk past a child with a grazed knee or broken arm without helping them. Asato is protected from street thugs by Takeo, another troubled young man who has issues involving his father who is lying in a coma in hospital. The third member of their group is a young waitress, Shiho, who has her own secret.

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📋 Film Details

Original Title KIDS
Year 2008
Country Japan
Genre Fantasy, Drama
Director Tatsuya Ogishima
Runtime 109 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.9/10 (13 votes)

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

The film constructs a fragile world at the intersection of gritty realism and parable-like fantasy, where a supernatural ability feels less like a gift and more like a curse. It relies on an atmosphere of impending doom to explore how physical and emotional wounds forge bonds between outcasts.

What lingers after the viewing is not spectacle, but a raw, nearly tactile immersion into a social underworld, where magic only heightens human vulnerability. A heavy, yet profoundly honest encounter with the pain of others. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Tatsuya Ogishima

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Watch in low light, prepared for a slow, oppressive descent into a world balancing on the edge of myth and reality.

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