FILM REVIEWS

ICHI THE KILLER (2001)

Directed By: Takeshi Miike
Film Reviewed by: Adam Trash

Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano) is a masochistic wise guy, his face scarred with the very any wounds and blows he has solicited. He is on the trail of the mobsters who kidnapped his boss Anjo. Pitted against him is Ichi (Nao Omori), the eponymous killer who is generally timid as a mouse but can be roused to acts of superhuman ferocity, if he can be convinced that his targets resemble the bullies who made his life a misery in high school.

Here are truly nauseating scenes of murder and torture.

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Best Japanese mobster movie EVER, I give it *** stars out of four