Movie
Ichi the Killer
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2001-12-22
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Horror
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Omega Project, Omega Micott, Excell Film Agentur
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Tadanobu Asano as Kakihara
- Nao Omori as Ichi
- Shinya Tsukamoto as Jijii
- SABU as Kaneko
- Paulyn Sun as Karen
- Susumu Terajima as Suzuki
- Shun Sugata as Takayama
- Toru Tezuka as Fujiwara
- Yoshiki Arizono as Nakazawa
- Kiyohiko Shibukawa as Ryu Long
- Satoshi Niizuma as Inoue
- Suzuki Matsuo as Jirô / Saburô
Crew
- Takashi Miike - Director
- Sakichi Sato - Screenplay
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