Genre:
Drama + Thriller

Synopsis:
The Tokyo underworld has been thrown into chaos. One of the leading crime bosses, Anjo, has disappeared. He’s been kidnapped, tortured and murdered by a mysterious killer named Ichi. Prowling the streets in a superhero get-up, Ichi’s a vigilante like no other. Psychotic, neurotic, prone to erections at the sight of violence, harbouring a fondness for brutalized women and given to killing his foes by cutting them into tiny pieces, Ichi is the product of a youth spent cowering before the bullying of his classmates. At the command of a manipulative mesmerist, he now seeks to cleanse the city of intimidating thugs (which, of course, means geysers of blood and mountains of hacked-up body parts). His favourite prey is the yakuza, the Japanese mafia. Now that he’s done in a leading gangster, the situation’s set to explode. On Ichi’s tail is Anjo’s right-hand man, Kakihara, a sado-masochistic crook with a taste for scarification, painful mutilation and traumatizing torture who’s suddenly excited at the idea of being cut to ribbons by the masked vigilante.
(from fantasiafest.com)

Casts:
Tadanobu Asano ... Kakihara
Nao Omori ... Ichi
Shinya Tsukamoto ... Jijii
Paulyn Sun ... Karen
Susumu Terajima ... Suzuki
Shun Sugata ... Takayama
Toru Tezuka ... Fujiwara
Yoshiki Arizono ... Nakazawa
Kee ... Ryu Long
Satoshi Niizuma ... Inoue
Suzuki Matsuo ... Jirô / Saburô
Jun Kunimura ... Funaki
Hiroyuki Tanaka ... Kaneko
Moro Morooka ... Coffee Shop Manager
Houka Kinoshita ... Sailor's Lover

Runtime:
129 min

Also Knows As:
"Koroshiya ichi" (original title)

Country:
Japan

Superheroes:
Ichi

Based on the manga:
"Koroshiya" created by Hideo Yamamoto

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