Takashi Miike's 2001 action horror would make even James Wan squirm.
In 2001, renowned Japanese filmmaker and provocateur Takashi Miike delivered the action-horror hybrid Ichi the Killer. A veritable smorgasbord of Manga-inspired action set-pieces, mordant humor, wince-inducing torture techniques, human entrails as set-dressing, performative misogyny, and hyper-critical exploration of toxic masculinity. This defiantly unreal and ultra-violent classic demands a cult rediscovery for fans of extreme cinema.
What Is 'Ichi the Killer' About? The lurid tale revolves around Hakihari , a bottle-blonde, flamboyantly-attired thug with facial scars and a penchant for delivering and receiving pain. The secondary character is the titular protagonist Ichi , an efficient killer who hides behind a seemingly harmless facade. Their paths converge following the disappearance of Yakuza boss Anjo, the misogynist leader of a powerful Shinjuku crime syndicate.
With Ichi the Killer, Miike had cornered the market with his graphic depictions of extreme violence in cinema, preceding the Torture Porn boom in the mid-00s by several years. The movie paved the way for Western filmmakers with the emergence of The Splat Pack; horror filmmakers like Eli Roth . Other notable movies included Greg Mclean’s Wolf Creek, Neil Marshall’s The Descent, Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects and Alexandre Aja’s remake of The Hills Have Eyes.
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