Koroshiya 1 (Ichi The Killer)
Director: Mike TakashiLanguage: Japanese
Release: 2001
Yakuza boss Anjo disappears with three hundred million yen. His loyal gang members, lead by the masochist Kakihara, start a search, but their aggressive and gory methods worry the other yakuza gangs. Kakiharas most frightening counterpart is the mysterious Ichi, a psychopathic killer with a dark childhood secret.
posted by Noizy @ 10:43
3 Comments:
Not so sure about this one read this review....
Peter Bradshaw
Friday May 30, 2003
The Guardian
For its sheer fanatical intensity, this ultra-violent yakuza thriller by Takashi Miike, based on a manga comic by Hideo Yamamoto, commands a kind of respect. But it's the kind of deeply horrible and bizarre movie that really can only be viewed from between your fingers, or behind the sofa, for most of its two-hours-plus running time.
Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano) is a masochistic wiseguy, his face scarred with the very many wounds and blows he has solicited. He is on the trail of the mobsters who kidnapped his boss Anjo. Pitted against him is Ichi (Nao Omori), the eponymous killer who is generally timid as a mouse but can be roused to acts of superhuman ferocity, if he can be convinced that his targets resemble the bullies who made his life a misery in high school (a plot-line oddly similar to Adam Sandler in The Waterboy).There are truly nauseating scenes of murder and torture, but without the satirical and psychological power they had in Miike's movie Audition. It's for fans only; the rest will just get bored by this grossout splatterfest.
12 April 2008 03:14
you really must stop reading all these daft reviews, nellie. dunno how mary whitehouse has managed to keep going all these years. yeah it has shocking moments - but we are rational adults, are we not? the violence in this film is very comic book in style and presentation (as is the violence in deathproof and evil dead 2) - so whilst it can be shocking in parts most of the violence is comic in its extremity. i reckon its worth a look.
Have you actually seen this? sounds like you have! I thought this chap had a fair comment to make I think the Mary Whitehouse thing a bit ripe, dont think that old tit would have liked the Audition by Miikes much which he obviously did. Sounds like a much better film from reading about both and havin not seen either if you actually know different please tell! Maybe you should read the reviews before you slag em off we havent all got the same tastes after all but if you highly recommend them I will watch em but why dont you choose something you havent seen. Maybe get The Audition instead or as well!!
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