Ichi R
How Ichi becomes the Killer. The movie is a pre-quel to Takashi Miike's Koroshiya 1 (Ichi - The Killer).
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 22, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Giant Ape
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Akira Emoto, Yôsuke Kubozuka, Shido Nakamura, Haruka Avase & Riki Takeuchi | |
Directed by | Fumihiko Sori & Hiroshi Kuze | |
Screenwriting by | Taeko Asano | |
Composition by | Lisa Gerrard & Michael Edwards | |
Story by | Kan Shimozawa | |
Director of Photography: | Keiji Hashimoto |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
Fumihiko Sori's film contains flashing blades and great sprays of arterial blood. The pacing, however, is as languid and soothing as a lullaby.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/5 --
Ultimately a romp, albeit one with some entertaining quirks and a strange melancholy undertow, we shouldn't make overly high-falutin' claims for Ichi, but fans of balletic fight scenes should get a kick out of some good-looking sequences.
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Film4
Rating: 3/5 --
Fumihiko Sori's attempt to make an original addition to the Zatoichi martial arts franchise never reaches the virtuosity of Takeshi Kitano's original. Needless to say, the fight scenes are better than the dialogue.
London Evening Standard
The fight scenes directed by Kurosawa's choreographer Hiroshi Kuze are exceptional, actually enhancing the pathos at the heart of the film. This might be a simple story, but it's well-told and has an unassuming appeal.
Little White Lies
Rating: 3/5 --
With Ran action choreographer Hiroshi Kuze on swordplay duties, the fisticuffs is suitably impressive, with even Ayase not relying too heavily on quick editing.
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Sky Cinema
Rating: 2/5 --
The villains are from the broad "har-de-har" school of banditry, the action is mostly fudged, and the resolution achingly obvious.
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Times (UK)
Haruka Ayase gives a very memorable performance and she's truly steals every scene she inhabits.
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Cinema Crazed
Product Description:
Director Fumihiko Sori simultaneously reinvents and continues the Zatoichi legend with this tale of a blind, wandering musician who was trained in the art of one-handed sword fighting as a young girl. Ichi (Haruka Ayase) learned how to wield a sword with the help of a blind masseuse. These days she keeps her sword concealed in her cane, only drawing it when the situation necessitates. She's searching for the man who trained her, the man she believes to be her father. When Ichi is ambushed by a group of vicious gangsters, a sympathetic samurai rushes to the rescue. But Ichi can fend for herself, and before long she's saving his life. Traveling together to a nearby village, the duo later encounters a young orphan, who becomes their guide. It seems that a disfigured gangster named Banky (Shidou Nakamura) has the village in his iron grip. Even the local yakuza head has failed to end Banky's reign, a fact that the crime boss' ambitious son doesn't take lightly. When Ichi gets drawn into the fray, swords start swinging.
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- UPC: 704400098963
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