What is Golden Boy about?
Kintaro Oe is a 25-year-old boy who left Tokyo University and now lives a simple life, traveling by bicycle to learn everything he can about the world.
Golden Boy (1995)
A whimsical wanderer bicycles across Japan, encountering raunchy escapades and pulpy, campy adventures.
Raunchy humor. A late-night trip at a measured pace.
Streaming on Crunchyroll.
Golden Boy parents guide
Nothing past what a TV-MA promises: moderate sex and nudity, and no real violence.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Cast and crew
StarringMitsuo Iwata, Gorō Naya
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