When a flamboyant but down-on-their-luck pair of Edo-period samurai blast off onto the open roads to do battle with heroin addiction and ponder the true meaning of life at the shrine of Ise, a blip in reality finds them thrust into a world where fantasy takes the place of the everyday, and the past merges with the present with disorienting hilarity. From the warped mind of Zebraman writer Kankuro Kudo comes a hallucinogenic tale of gay love in a world where nothing is as it seems. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims(真夜中の弥次さん喜多さん,Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san?) is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Kudo Kankuro. The film stars several well-known and highly respected Japanese actors.
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
One day, they receive an advertisement for the Grand Shrine at Ise, and decide to set out on a pilgrimage there, hoping to cure Kita of his drug addiction. They set out on a modern motorcycle but are forced to turn back and walk the Tōkaidō road to Ise, encountering various characters and obstacles along the way.
