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ICHI THE KILLER
殺し屋１
Japan, 2001
Directed by Takashi Miike
Based on the manga series by Hideo Yamamoto
With Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori
Approx. 130 min. DCP restoration.
“Miike shoots ICHI like a comic — bold, harsh camera angles and shots with distorted depth-of-field — the approach rendered all the more energetic thanks to the heap of extravagant violence. But underneath the spillage and flow of this gonzo activity, Miike layers a blood-stained commentary on a toxic world in which men offer protection to men but really end up dooming them to exist within a spasmodic, shambolic, and hypermasculine sphere of violence.” – Tanner Tafelski, The Village Voice