6.9
Ichi the Killer
2001, 2h 9min -
Visceral, bloody, and often hilarious, Takashi Miike’s gonzo gore opera (an adaptation of the manga by Hideo Yamamoto) is one of the most influential and notorious genre films of the twenty-first century. While searching for his boss’s killer, sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano) comes into the orbit of a demented costumed assassin known as Ichi (Nao Omori), a violent, sexually repressed young man who has the ability to deliver the kind of orgasmic agony that the pain-obsessed gangster craves.
