Ninja Kids!!! (2011) poster
2011 · family · comedy · ninja

Ninja Kids!!!

Directed by Takashi Miike1h 39m2011
ElsewhereIMDb5.8458TMDB5.921
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • inventive
  • redemptive
  • funny
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle family / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.

Our read · Ninja Kids!!! (2011) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · comedy · ninja entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want energetic Japanese live-action kids ninja slapstick and gags.

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Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou dislike kids films or broad silly physical comedy.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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