Ichi the Killer (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 20, 2018
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Well Go USA
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tadanobu Asano | |
Performer: | Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Susuma Terajima, Nao Omori & Sabu | |
Directed by | Takashi Miike | |
Screenwriting by | Sakichi Sato | |
Composition by | Karera Musication | |
Produced by | Akiko Funatsu, Dai Miyazaki & Toyoyuki Yokohama | |
Director of Photography: | Hideo Yamamoto | |
Executive Production by | Albert Yeung & Sumiji Miyake |
Entertainment Reviews:
Even hardy gonzo-cinema auds will likely find the hectic pace overstimulating to the point of numbed-out tedium.
Variety
Funny, absurd, nightmarishly visceral and -- of course -- deeply serious.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/5 --
Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer suffers from a heavily-meandering storyline, resulting in a tedious and stretched-out film that marks a low point in the director's incredible career.
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The Blu Spot
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Unhinged even for Takashi Miike, Ichi the Killer suggests a bloody and ejaculate-stained Rorschach inkblot, reveling in ultraviolence that can be interpreted to flatter any adventurous audience's sensibilities.
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Slant Magazine
Miike layers a blood-stained commentary on a toxic world in which men offer protection to men but really end up dooming them to exist within a spasmodic, shambolic, and hypermasculine sphere of violence.
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Village Voice
...This demented butcher shop of a movie takes Asian cinema to new extremes...
Total Film
Rating: 2/5 --
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.
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Guardian
Product Description:
Prolific director Takashi Miike (AUDITION) keeps finding new ways to test the boundaries of on-screen violence. ICHI THE KILLER is a masterful piece of filmmaking, simultaneously funny and horrific, but it's only for viewers with strong stomachs. One character, Kakihara (Japanese indie film heartthrob Tadanobu Asano), a masochistic yakuza lieutenant, has slits in his cheeks through which he blows cigarette smoke and gleefully hacks off his own tongue to apologize for his impudence. Then there's eponymous assassin (Nao Omori), a painfully shy but sadistic young voyeur who wears a leather superhero outfit to work. Manipulated by the cagey and mysterious Jijii (English translation: "Gramps," Shinya Tsukamoto), Ichi lashes out and massacres those Jijii deems bullies, and basically anyone else who upsets his frail psyche. Jijii uses the demented lad to start a bloody war between rival yakuza factions. Miike's film is full of grotesquely over-the-top violent set pieces, including flying entrails, graphic mutilations, and even a severed human face splattered against a wall and slowly sliding to the ground. It's all captured with kinetic camerawork and hyperactive editing. It's not for everyone, but bolder viewers will find it uniquely entertaining.
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- UPC: 812491019658
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