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Ichi the Killer (Unrated Edition) Director: Takashi Miike Number of Items: 1 Format: Color Audience Rating: Unrated Running Time: 129 minutes Studio: Media Blasters, Inc Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-11-18 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 86 Average rating: 4.0 "I'm scared Ichi..I'm REALLY scared" This movie is nothing short of a full on train wreck. Super Violent, Torture galore, sadists..I LOVED this movie ...it is SO over the top its Hilarious...I recommend this film to anyone with a dark sence of humour & a strong stomach "urgh..." Much of the hype surrounding this film isn't justified. The acting is very good( well...It's kinda hard to tell because it's dubbed but they do have cool British accents)And the movie is driven by a superb lead character in Kakihara. But! and I stress this. The film is VERY gory and the gore alone I can stand but alot of that gore comes from brutal violence towards women. There are many scenes of women being raped, beaten and tortured. If it was just a gory yakuza film it might have rated it higher but the way the dames were treated rubbed me the wrong way. If you don't like seeing women abused then I would recommend that you skip this one, but if for some sick reason you get your jollys seeing that then this movie is right up your ally. "ICHI IS A THRILLER" Wow where to start with this one. Awsome i think sums it up. Its a gangster movie a sexually devient movie its just so hard to write a review on this cause you don't know what to say this movie just leaves you in awe. Now i was introduced to takshi with Audition and thought to myself this guy is just in his own world and i want to know how to get there..but i also figured nothin could top or come close to Audtion.. man was i wrong. Now unlike people who write reviews on here i am not even going to get into the story.. just tell you my opinion on the movie..if you like violent gangster movies this is the holy grail of them all.. Chicken Grease getting poured on a man hanging from hooks..tounge getting cut out...needles going thru parts of the face...oh and a guy with razors in his shoe that do some serious damage....Now thats not tellin you the story thats just tellin you the brutality of some of these scenes in this movie... face it you need to buy it..its great. There really is no way anyone can not like this movie unless of course your squeemish "Ichi the Killer (Unrated) for the Win!" If you've never seen a Takashi Miike film make this your first. I had previsouly watched "Audition" by Miike and really liked his psychological tones in the film. I read reviews of "Ichi the Killer" and was intrigued to watch it. I must say hands down it's 2 hours and roughly 15 minutes of non-stop downward spiral violence, sadisim, gore, torture and twists. Brief Spoiler: Movie starts out with a syndicate (japanese mobster) boss getting killed by Ichi, who is a brainwashed youth. He had been brainwashed for what seems like a long time by a former member of the syndicate. This ex-syndicate member leads Ichi to believe that each member he's setting him up to hit bullied him (Ichi) as a child. Ichi snaps and the blood bath soon begins. Meanwhile Kakihara a very wild syndicate member starts painting the town red (excuse the pun) looking for the killer(s) of his boss. Though during the film he keeps saying his boss is still alive. You find out eventually that Kakihara loved this syndicate boss because he was the only person who could beat him the way he liked it. Kakihara loves pain and is a torture expert. He has both sides of his mouth cut all the way to the hinge in his jaw and held together with 2 rainbow metal hoops, which he can yank out and open his mouth up extremely wide. Very good special effects when Kawkihara smokes and blows it out both slits on the sides of his face. Also when he uses it to hold a punch from a person he's hunting down. Eventually biting all the skin off the top of his hand. This movie is not for the meak and not a movie to watch right after eating an italian saucey dinner. This movie goes way beyond what you would ever see in the U.S. theater. I do believe the censors just looked at this film and let it go. If they edited it, all you would see is opening credits and ending credits. Enjoy! "Amateur Night" After reading so many positive reviews of this film, I took a chance, and got it. Bad Move. This film is amateurish from the top down. First, it looks like it was shot on a dollar budget with recycled fuji film. The acting (acting?) puts it in a class with "Plan 9 From Outer Space." As for the gory effects; a crybaby killer leaves a trail of red paint and pig intestines wherever he goes. Honestly, the whole film is so overdone, it is laughable. By the way, notice that the killer has a three inch blade that pops out of the heel of his shoe. With that blade he slices people in half! This is very effective if you are fighting 2 1/2 inch thick opponents!!! Any wonder this film never gained wide release in this country?