Love really hurts.
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.
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- Body horror
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Bleak, contemporary, relentless and overwhelming.
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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Cast
- Tadanobu AsanoKakihara
- Nao OmoriIchi
- Shinya TsukamotoJijii
- SABUKaneko
- Paulyn SunKaren
- Susumu TerajimaSuzuki
- Shun SugataTakayama
- Toru TezukaFujiwara
- Yoshiki ArizonoNakazawa
- Kiyohiko ShibukawaRyu Long
Crew
- Takashi MiikeDirector
- Sakichi SatoScreenplay
- Hideo YamamotoDirector of Photography
- Seiichi YamamotoOriginal Music Composer
- Yasushi ShimamuraEditor
- Dai MiyazakiProducer
- Akiko FunatsuProducer
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