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Ichi the Killer
2001
· Movie
· 129 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2471
- IMDb #2460
- Rotten Tomatoes #2150
- Metacritic #2708
- Letterboxd #1750
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3067
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1462
- Metacritic Critics #2977
- Metacritic Audience #2191
- Criticker #1232
- Douban #1159
- Kinopoisk #4065
- AlloCiné #2984
- Trakt #2479
Every rating
55–86
out of 100
A sadistic yakuza enforcer searches for his missing boss. His path crosses with a mysterious, emotionally fragile man who may be a legendary killer known as Ichi. The search descends into an ultra-violent cycle of torture, mutilation, and psychological gamesmanship in Tokyo’s criminal underworld.
Details
- Director
- Takashi Miike
- Writer
- Sakichi Sato
- Based on
- Ichi the Killer by Hideo Yamamoto
- Studio
- Omega Project, Omega Micott, Excell Film Agentur
- Released
- 22 December 2001
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Budget
- $1.4M
- Box office
- $80.6K
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