Kikujiro's Summer tells a simple and heartwarming story.
The long-awaited summer vacation has finally begun, but there is nothing to be happy for the third grader, all the friends have gone to the beach or their parents' country evenings, and even the football team has not trained on vacation. Masao, who had lost his father at an early age, and his mother-in-law were dependent on each other, and the mother-in-law told him that his mother worked far away to earn money, and masao found his mother's address on the envelope that his mother sent back from out of town. The silent and lonely child is ready to take his diary, summer vacation homework, and pocket money alone to visit his mother in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture.
When the neighbor's aunt found out, she decided to help Masao complete his wish. She took out a sum of money as travel expenses, and also arranged for her idle husband Kikujiro to accompany Masao on the road to find his mother. However, on the first day, Kikujiro lost all the money his wife gave, so the two had to walk to Aichi. Kikujiro is not a good uncle, he went to gamble and lost money, and masao was almost bullied by perverted gangsters; stayed in the hotel to steal clothes, asked the hotel waiter to send them for free, but refused to say a thank you; he couldn't stop the hitchhiker on the road, and even put nails and tires to get other people's cars off the embankment.
They hadn't hitched a ride all day, spending the night at an abandoned bus stop, the rain pouring down, and the man was looking at his mother's picture in the dim light.
"Have you never seen her?" The uncle asked, and Masao did not answer, and his face was a little lonely. Masao fell asleep in his uncle's arms. "It turns out he's just like me." The uncle thought to himself, what happened to Masao seemed to arouse his heart.
When they stumbled to find the address of the male mother, the far door opened, and the mother was sending a man and a little girl out, and it turned out that the mother had long since remarried and had a happy family. In any case, mom's behavior shows that she has long abandoned the main man. Masao only glanced at his mother from a distance, and then went to the corner to wipe his tears.
Later, in order to comfort Masao, the uncle almost snatched the angel bell from the hands of the locomotive duo, saying that it was left to him before his mother moved away, and as long as the bell was shaken, the angel would appear to protect him.
The uncle desperately found all kinds of people to coax the man to be happy. "For the sake of that kid, let's play together." So these idle guys: idle uncles, novelists who travel around the world, disgusting and good-looking flying cars and fat skinny duos through the lush cornfields, telling the legend of the Big Dipper, pretending to be aliens, and then everyone fell asleep, leaving dedicated aliens to spend the night alone in the cornfield; playing crappy chicken bubble fish and octopus, and playing the game of wooden people together.
The pleasant journey ended quickly, and when they were separated, Masao asked the uncle what his name was? "Kikujiro, bastard, come on", it turns out that this summer is not only the summer of the little boy, but also the summer of Uncle Kikujiro.
Uncle Kikujiro also went to visit his mother in the nursing home, and his mother refused to talk to other elderly people, silently looking at the window and pondering, And Uncle Kikujiro also looked at his mother from a distance. In this summer, he silently reconciled with his mother in his heart. On the way to find his mother, Uncle Kikujiro and Masao are the people who lack maternal love and have emotional scars.
When Kikujiro and his wife first appeared, his wife taught a group of small that if they didn't learn well when they were young, they would grow up to become him (Kikujiro), an adult. Kikujiro is a person who was abandoned since childhood, but he is not a bad person, many people are abandoned by society at birth or growing up, novelists who travel the world, motorcycle men, bald men in order to make masamune happy, may be the eyes of the people around them, but their truth and kindness are touching. Wherever God has abandoned you, and whether or not you have molded yourself into an instrument, you have the opportunity to accomplish yourself.
In reality, Kikujiro's founder Takeshi Kitano and his mother's relationship has always been bad, he and his mother have been fighting all their lives, but in the end they all lose. He once said: "I think of my childhood playmates, now they are either workers or gangsters, how am I different from them?" No, no, only mothers are different. ”
He was playful and aggressive when he was a child, and his mother worked hard to prevent her from getting bad. He loved to play baseball, and his mother secretly changed the baseball gloves he had hidden for English books. He suddenly dropped out of school and wanted to go out, and his mother stood outside the door, dazedly watching the van he was sitting in disappeared. Such a mother made him dare not take the woman home casually, because he always felt that his mother's vicious eyes were staring at him. After he became famous, his mother kept calling him for money, and as his fame grew, the amount of pocket money his mother pestered him became. He vowed never to go home again.
It was such a mother, uncultured, and stubbornly brought up him and his two brothers who were living at the bottom of society at that time. He became Japan's top director and actor, and his brothers became business executives and university professors.
After his mother's funeral, his sister handed him a bag, saying that his mother had given it to him and that he must open it himself. He opened the little dirty bag, which turned out to be a postal savings passbook in his own name. The money he gave her, not a penny spent, was all saved, and he burst into tears.
His mother worried about him, and from an early age worried: "He didn't like to read, he spent money haphazardly, and he was too generous to his friends." When he said he was going to Tokyo to work, I was worried that he would become a down-and-out-of-the-box. I ask him for money every month, on the one hand, to stimulate him to make more money, on the other hand, to save for him; his money is his money, let him use it now. ”
Because of this, Kitano Hoped to express his heart again, even if the person he most wanted to talk to was no longer there. For a man who is more than half a hundred a year old, "Kikujiro's Summer" is his warmest confession to his mother.
Dear ones, take advantage of the time to go home and give your mother a gentle hug