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| Year: | 2001 |
| Country of origin: | Japan |
| Director: | Takashi Miike |
| Genre: | Indescribable |
| Starring: | Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto |
| Rating: | 4/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296042/ |
| Tagline: | Love really hurts. |
| Favourite line: | N/A - Subtitled |
Brutally violent black comedy, this is disturbing and surreal cinema that could only really have come out of that land of all that is odd, Japan.
A Yakuza boss goes missing with a stash full of loot, and the rest of The Yakuza are most displeased. A man named Kakihara winds up on his trail, head of a Yakuza clan, and has the misfortune to run up against Ichi, a man for whom the word weird doesn't even begin to spell it out. He's been post-hypnotically altered to believe that as a child he was witness to a violent rape of a teacher and, in the suggestion, he simply stands and watches, powerless to help yet deeply stimulated by the spectacle. Flash forward several years and the man who placed the hypnotic suggestion now uses him to kill individuals who are against him.
Ichi wears a suit not dissimilar to Batman(!), with a large number one emblazoned in yellow across the back.
Will Kakihara escape from Ichi's shoe blades?
Will Ichi defeat his demons and finally get to rape the teacher from all those years ago, as he has long dreamed?
Well, you'll have to watch it to find out.
Unflinching, gory and disturbing, this is also comic, but in the blackest sense of the word.
A profoundly dark mind is behind this oddity, and certainly no Western movie would dare tackle some of the subject matter contained herein.
Strongly recommended, but only to those with an appetite for violence and bloodshed. Very, very good.
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