Ichi the Killer is the epitome of comic book hero movies. Spiderman, X-men, the Hulk, Batman, Superman, they all miss the boat. Ichi is it. Very innovative filmmaking. Very edgy. It’s brutally honest and I do mean brutally. This is not a film for everyone. It’s ultraviolent and offensive. It makes Kill Bill look like Teletubbies, but no doubt, Tarantino will be ripping scenes out of this film for future projects. While Americans are waking up to Kill Bill, Japan is years ahead with Ichi.
Again, I do not recommend this movie for the squeemish at all. In fact, I’m not sure I even liked it. But there were some priceless moments, a lot of stuff I’ve never seen on film before, and I’m not sure that I’m happy that I’ve seen it now. But I will say the film surprised me several times, which is really uncommon in these days of tired formulaic plots.
I saw it, and it has to be the most violent, demented, and graphic movie I have ever seen.
The torture scenes are just plain sadism to the finest (not being a sadist, but from a movie critque point of view).
I still don’t really grasp the pyschological aspects of the film, maybe because I’m not thet F**Ked up.
I will say that this film is very creative, you can see that with every violent scene, style and creativity are top notch in this film. The story is not for the faint of heart.
Japanese movies are really interesting. They are light years ahead in the horror genre aswell. Just look at movies like Grudge (or Jue sumting as it’s called in Japan), Dark Water, The Eye etc etc
saw it. thought it was lame. the only thing cool about it was the violence. that kept me interested enough to see what he was gonna do next. i would only give it 1 star out of 4. nothing special. i wonder if the anime is as boring as the live action. there are way better takashi miike films out there.
Originally posted by GeneChing I agree with SanSoo Student. Ichi is sick and perverse. But not as bad as the Sinful Dwarf or Cannibal Holocaust.
Grr, now you’ve got me kicking myself for not having watched that copy of Cannibal Holocaust I came across a few weeks ago.
No not yet, there’s a movie festival going on here and I have tickets to The Grudge and The Grudge 2, about next week if I remember correctly. It looks scarier than The eye and that was pretty scary to me. I’m lookin forward to it
i have it sitting on my floor at home… i watched the first 10-15 minutes to see what i was getting myself into… i decided to wait until after the King Of San Da so i can sit down with a few drinks and bugg out over it…
That was one of the most revolting films I have ever seen. Absolutely no redeeming qualities. And once you see it, you’re ruined because you can’t get that evil crap out of your head. I call it ‘eye rape’.
Fudoh : new generation *i recommend
Full Metal Yakuza *another good one
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City of Lost Souls
Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive 2
Dead or Alive 3
most of miikes movies suck. NEVER go see his Dead or Alive. NEVER, not one of them. I saw DOA2 and I want the the 2 hours stolen from my life back :mad:
