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Ichi the Killer

Takashi Miike, Director

2001 | 130 |

Notoriously known as Japan's prolific master of extreme cinema, filmmaker Takashi Miike (AUDITION; DEAD OR ALIVE) outdoes himself with this taboo-shattering mixture of visceral horror and bizarre humor. Based on a popular Japanese graphic novel, Miike's film is an audience-challenging tale of retribution, in which a vicious, scar-faced gangster (Tadanobu Asano) hunts down the mobsters who kidnapped his boss. Eventually, his quest ends in a showdown with the mysterious Ichi (Nao Omori), a troubled young man with razor-laced boots.