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