Ichi the Killer

Dec 22, 2001

2h 9m

★ 7.0

Love really hurts.

Overview

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

Genres

Action

Crime

Horror

Production Companies

Omega Project

Omega Micott

Excell Film Agentur

Ichi the Killer Trailers

Cast

Kakihara

Tadanobu Asano

Ichi

Nao Ômori

Jijii

Shinya Tsukamoto

Kaneko

SABU

Karen

Paulyn Sun

Suzuki

Susumu Terajima

Takayama

Shun Sugata

Fujiwara

Toru Tezuka

Nakazawa

Yoshiki Arizono

Ryu Long

Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Inoue

Satoshi Niizuma

Jirô / Saburô

Suzuki Matsuo

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