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Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Ichi the Killer |
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Based on the manga "Koroshiya 1" by Hideo Yamamoto, ICHI THE KILLER is a movie directed by Takashi Miike in 2001.
The yakuza boss Anjo has been savagely murdered in his apartment. His first lieutenant, the sadistic Kakihara, will use torture and molestation in order to obtain informations about his boss's murderer. He won't hesitate to torture one of the yakuza bosses after having listened to a simple rumour. Insensible to pain, Kakihara is sexually aroused when it comes to inflicting pain to others.
Anjo has been killed by a mentally disturbed young man, Ichi, who's manipulated by Jiji, a yakuza working for a rival gang. Ichi is convinced to to kill the bad guys of Tokyo. He will, literally speaking, exterminate one by one the remaining members of the Anjo gang.
ICHI THE KILLER has almost unbearable scenes of torture and gore.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of story:
- molestation
- really kinky sex!!!
Criminal enemy is...
- Asian crime gangs
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals killing each other
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- very skinny (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude male butt
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- boiling
- frying (cooking)
- decapitated
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Japanese
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- None
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- nasty human transformations
Is this movie based on a
- comics
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