![]() Ichi the Killer (DVD) 3-Disc Set Special Edition Takashi Miike, Tokyo Shock 5 out of 5 stars. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival as a part of the Midnight Madness program. 7 product ratings - Ichi the Killer (DVD, 2007, 2-Disc Set, Collectors Blood Bag Uncut) 22.00. Pining for the sadistic abuse of his boss, Kakihara learns of Ichi from a Hong Kong hostess ( Alien Sun) and sets out to find this fabled butcher, hoping he can inflict the pain that Kakihara craves. Meanwhile, a shadowy character known as Jijii (played by director Shinya Tsukamoto) deftly manipulates, for his own nefarious ends, Ichi (Nao Omori), an unbalanced but ruthless killing machine clad in a superhero suit. Sporting a blond head of hair and a yawning, pierced slash for a mouth, Kakihara is no ordinary gangster and his methods are equally unorthodox he impales one poor suspect's naked body on a series of meat hooks and then dumps hot oil on him. When mob don Anjo mysteriously disappears, his protégé Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano) vows to find the people responsible. Maverick auteur Takashi Miike spins this unsettling, blood-soaked yakuza yarn adapted from Hideo Yamamoto's cult manga Koroshiya 1.
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