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(Synopsis)
Yakuza boss Anjo disappears with 100 million yens. His loyal gang members, lead by the masochist Kakihara, start a search, but their aggressive and gory methods worry the other yakuza gangs. Kakiharas most scary counterpart is the mysterious Ichi, a psychopathic killer with a dark childhood secret, who is controlled by a retired yakuza boss.
-- Fun Facts --
As a publicity gimmick, barf bags were handed out at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to those attending the midnight screening of this film.
When Kakihara's cell phone rings, the ringtone is the movie's theme song.
The fenced-in rooftop where Kakihara and Ichi battle is the same one seen in Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive, where three policemen talk about murder and the Yakuza.
For the sequence in which his character is suspended from hooks and tortured, actor Susumu Terajima required twelve hours of makeup and other preparation, and then spent twelve more hours shooting the scene.
The name Ichi means 1 which is why he wears the yellow number 1 on his costume.
Director 'Takashi Miikeon' reveals that the semen used in the close-up during the intro sequence, when the film's title raises out of a puddle of semen, is real.
Miike originally intended to have the author of the original manga, Hideo Yamamoto, to write a script entirely in manga form, but the idea fell through when Yamamoto felt he could not complete it due to writer's block.
Director
Takashi Miike
Script
Sakichi Sato
Cast
Hideo Sako
Hiroshi Kobayashi
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Houka Kinoshita
Jun Kunimura
Kaori Sugawara
Kee
Mai Goto
Mako Takeda
Masataka Haji
Moro Morooka
Nao Omori
Noko Morishita
Paulyn Sun
Rio Aoki
Sakichi Sato
Satoshi Niizuma
Setchin Kawaya
Shinya Tsukamoto
Shun Sugata
Susumu Terajima
Suzuki Matsuo
Tadanobu Asano
Toru Tezuka
Yoshiki Arizono
Yuki Kazamatsuri
Publisher: Omega
Audio: Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Video: LetterBox
Subtitles: Chinese/English
Running Time: 115mins
Release Year: 2001
Rating: CAT III
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