I generally like Kitanos films and watched this one for the sake of completeness.
I was very surprised at what I saw. This is slapstick humor, Benny Hill type. There are a few good jokes in here, let us say 5 minutes out of a total duration of 105 minutes. Some of the typical dramatical and visual elements of Kitanos films can be found here, maybe it was an experiment at filming slapstick in Kitano-style, along the lines of "it seemed like a good idea at the time"? Not my cup of tea, I was bored most of the time (that would be the other 100 minutes).
For some reason, the cautious comments that could have warned me come at the bottom of the list here in IMDb.
I was very surprised at what I saw. This is slapstick humor, Benny Hill type. There are a few good jokes in here, let us say 5 minutes out of a total duration of 105 minutes. Some of the typical dramatical and visual elements of Kitanos films can be found here, maybe it was an experiment at filming slapstick in Kitano-style, along the lines of "it seemed like a good idea at the time"? Not my cup of tea, I was bored most of the time (that would be the other 100 minutes).
For some reason, the cautious comments that could have warned me come at the bottom of the list here in IMDb.