This is my IMDB review- which was written whe I had only seen a couple Miike films:
What am I watching?
I've only watched a couple of Takashi Miike's films and I'm not sure what to make of them. They are technically well made but rather haphazard in most other areas. I tend to walk out wondering what it was all about.
Ichi is about a missing crime boss and the money that went with him. The story centers on the search for him by a man who will do anything to find him.
While I can admire what I was watching on a technical level, I can't really say that I really cared about anything that was going on. I think my attitude is best explained by my admiring all of the pieces, but not caring about the whole. I liked the look of things, say the unique way they have for questioning a rival gang boss, but I can't really say that the sequence really served any purpose, well not in the way it seemed to degenerate into an exercise in, some what funny, cruelty.
The film is nasty and graphic and funny, often in the "should I be laughing at this?" sort of way. Its far from for all tastes, but I would hope that people are not coming upon this unaware.
5 out of 10.
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