{"id":16869,"date":"2024-10-18T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16869"},"modified":"2024-10-16T18:03:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:03:35","slug":"ichi-the-killer-2001-takashi-miike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16869","title":{"rendered":"Ichi the Killer (2001, Takashi Miike)"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of those movies I watched in grungy lo-fi copies enough times that I thought it would feel weird to see in HD, but Ichi<\/em> is going to be kinda grungy no matter how much resolution you throw at it. It’s also a movie with two prolific actors who I see every year and call “that guy from Ichi The Killer<\/em>” (most recently when BOTH appeared in Kubi<\/a><\/em>). Lumped in with the Asian horror crowd when it came out, but its over-the-top death and torture scenes are mixed in with the perverse Ichi story, a yakuza war, fucked up music by Boredoms and much crazed humor.<\/p>\n

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Besides Ichi and Kakihara, we got Shinya Tsukamoto as Ichi’s handler\/manipulator – everyone calls him an old fart then he’s revealed to be massively muscled, killing head enforcer Shun Sugata (Tokyo Gore Police<\/a><\/em> chief). Sabu of Shinjuku Triad Society<\/a><\/em> is an ex-cop turned bodyguard for Kaki’s gang to pay the bills, and Suzuki Matsuo (Shin Kamen Rider<\/a><\/em>) plays their identical twin colleages. The rival who Kaki repeatedly tortures is Kitano regular Susumu Terajima.<\/p>\n

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Ichi’s traumatic backstory is only partly true, Kaki’s attacks on his rivals are based on misinformation and bad guesses, Ichi panics and kills the girls he likes and the boy trying to befriend him. Everyone’s a real mess – but at least Kaki gets what he wanted (to be killed).<\/p>\n

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One of those movies I watched in grungy lo-fi copies enough times that I thought it would feel weird to see in HD, but Ichi is going to be kinda grungy no matter how much resolution you throw at it. It’s also a movie with two prolific actors who I see every year and call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,2560,1243,804,36,1780,104,469],"class_list":["post-16869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-false-memory","tag-gangsters","tag-hitman","tag-japan","tag-sadomasochism","tag-takashi-miike","tag-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16914,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869\/revisions\/16914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}