Maverick auteur Takashi Miike spins this unsettling, blood-soaked yakuza yarn adapted from Hideo Yamamoto's cult manga Koroshiya 1. When mob don Anjo mysteriously disappears, his protégé Kakihara (Tadanobu Asano) vows to find the people responsible. Sporting a blond head of hair and a yawning, ...more
Year: 2001 | Running Time: 128 minutes
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Blu-Ray Disc
$25.99ICHI THE KILLER / (DUB SUB)
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DVD
$16.99ICHI THE KILLER (RATED) / (SUB)
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DVD
$18.99ICHI THE KILLER (UNRATED) / (SPEC SUB)
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DVD
$22.99ICHI THE KILLER (3PC) / (SPEC DUB SUB)
In Takashi Miike's freakishly intense world, the tormentor and the tormented are locked in a cycle of retribution and outlandish violence where torture, dismemberment, and evisceration are the norm. Crisply edited and employing some mind-boggling camera techniques, the film -- as in Miike's other works -- creates mordantly funny moments that are as pungent as they are memorable. At one point, Kakihara, as an act of atonement, cuts off his pierced tongue only to take a cell phone call immediately ...more
- Takashi Miike - Director
- Sumiji Miyake - Executive Producer
- Albert Yeung - Executive Producer
- Toyoyuki Yokohama - Executive Producer
- Dai Miyazaki - Producer
- Akiko Funatsu - Producer
- Sakichi Sato - Screenwriter
- Karera Musication - Composer (Music Score)












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