About 30 minutes too long, but a very amusing film. Loaded with style and personality.
A word about censorship. Firstly, Ichi the Killer is so blatantly a satire that it is silly to get up in arms about this film. It is not morally reprehensible in any way. Except….for one scene. See – I don’t mind the intense graphic cartoonish violence, but I don’t quite dig on the leering, lingering sexual violence toward women. Which does have a (brief) presence in this film. Even if it is meant to show that certain characters are evil or that they are all twisted in their psycho-sexual mishigoss. If you say “That goes to far!” in the presence of a Takashi Miike film it means you are a loser and you suck but, you know what, that goes to far. When you are going for satire (and not, say, Irreversible) then it goes to far. I call it like I see it.
Still, though, there is some amusing stuff in this disgusting film.
Nice review. We don’t quite like this film presented by Miike too.
No mention of the fact that it’s clearly based on Itchy and Scratchy?