ICHI THE KILLER - The Most Brutal Movie Ever Made? 

Woman: You freed me! Ichi: oh i I wouldn't say "freed", more like "under new management"

fun fact: miike claims that the coom on the plant in the opening scene is 100% real and i dont know what to feel about it

You missed the part when in that scene where Kakihara is getting punched by his new lady friend after he leaves her, she throws down a set of brass knuckles on the floor out of frustration. SHE WAS HITTING HIM WITH BRASS KNUCKLES AND HE STILL WANTED MORE! XD

The manga's story is "a bit" different to the movie's ...It's still as insane, if not more, since Kakihara has his men...err..."feed grapes to corpses" yeah.

It's quite funny how the movie is SO fucked up, yet it's barely a fraction of how fucking insane the manga is.

If you didn't know: you can see Ichi playing a game in his bedroom, that being Tekken. Ichi's inspiration for how he kills people is the character he plays, Hwoarang.

When i was 15/16 years old, i rented this movie at the local vhs movie store, it was in their "BANNED in foreign countries" section. I have no clue how i found out about this movie, but i heared before hand it was the most brutal movie ever made, and it came from Japan, that made it even more exciting. saw it with a bunch of friends, all stoned and drunk, and boy, it was the most brutal movie any of us has seen. This movie and Battle Royal are still my favorite brutal movies ever from Japan.

The violence in this movie is obviously unreal and over-the-top, just like the manga. How is it banned in places, when it's literally just a live action anime film, and countries still allow people to read such manga or watch the anime adaptations??

You know you're in for a wild ride when Elvis feels the need to assure the audience that he and his wife still love each other after viewing this motion picture.

The thing is that the violence is so cartoonish that it doesn’t register for me as real in any way. For that reason Martyrs still wins.

Elvis: this is the most brutal movie ever. The terrifier: finally a worthy opponent out battle will be legendary.

I mean you say "silly in an otherwise serious film", it's more of a very dark comedy. I mean the scene with just fountains of blood spraying out of the door with the guy gripping the door is so ridiculous and funny.

Oh, the adaptation is so tame next to the original. Still can't believe Kakihara's most iconic line is not in the movie, "I've waited my whole life for a pervert like you!". Also the sequence when he gives all the yakuza in the building a literal bloodbath.

Ichi the killer: the romantic story of the bond between a sadist and a masochist.

It’s far from the “most brutal” movie but It’s still one of my favourite surprised YOU’RE reviewing a Takashi Miike movie honestly.

It's actually a masochist's love story crossed with a complex revenge plot. Kakihara WANTS to encounter Ichi because of the pain he may be able to inflict upon him, perhaps why the crime scenes are so over the top- It only entices Kakihara more, and is probably what helps him get over the boss who dies at the beginning and USED to inflict pain on Kakihara like nobody else could. Meanwhile, the old man is using Kakihara's desperation against him to infiltrate his operation and bring down the criminal element using Ichi as a tool. The very experimental soundtrack is The Boredoms as "Karera Musication". The cop twins mention having a third brother whom they were also able to sense when he died. Since the movie is about how violence affects people's psyches differently, the cartoonish levels of violence sort of fits. Ichi's suit is motorcycle padding, I think.

Takashi Miike, the only guy who can do gnarly films like this, Gozu, and Visitor Q, but then also make just Ace Attorney and Jojos Bizzare Adventure live-action movies too. Absolute mad man.

The thing about "reading this as a kid" is not something you should worry, Ichi is in the "Seinen" genre, wich is basically manga for Adults, because the contents are either too hard/psychological for kids to understand (Ichi, Punpun, Monster and others), or too graphic, so parents usually don't allow it or they're just not interested.

I watched this movie with my friends when I was in high school, 18 years ago. We though that Tarantino was violent (back then, most of what he did was spill blood with style in his movies) until we got into Japanese B-movies. Takeshi Miike is on another level on violence and bizarreness. I am pretty he read a lot of Marquis de Sade, his boldness in his movies are top notch.

Never would’ve imagined you would cover this movie…here’s your crown, king 👑

I can’t take Elvis seriously when he’s pronouncing Ichi like “itchy” 😭😭😭

2:40 It's not glue. According to the director's commentary version of the movie, it was the real stuff. Fresh and produced by Shinya Tsukamoto, who used to "relax" himself before shooting a scene

Saw this video, watched a minute, saw there was a manga, binge read it, and now I'm scarred for life. Thanks Elvis!!!

Takashi Miike doing Takashi Miike things. We need more filmakers like him, ones that aren't really afraid to add crazy, weird, disturbing or taboo themes into their movies, but also end up doing light-hearted or even comedic movies [Takashi Miike even did the live-action Ace Attorney movie and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable]

If you wanna see another batshit insane movie, check out Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky.

Did you know that in the manga, ichi cuts the main villain's penis in half at the beginning of volume 10?

Elvis it makes me so happy to see your sub count as high as it is. I feel like ive watched you forever and I love your personality. Stay smooth man

Travis Touchdown's right, Miike is an incredibly entertaining director, the over-the-top violence is just so much fun

In the manga it's explained Jiji isn't actually old, he's like 30 but made himself look old and took a bunch of steroids to be super buff and beat up yakuza. Also the kid doesn't de in the manga, he becomes the new Ichi, except he's number 2 and he kills people with a knife and Ichi's just turned into a normal dude.

Glad to see you loving your picks! Cheers🍷

I fucking love this movie. Miike has a dark sense of humor in his movies, so even when they're at their most brutal, there's this surreal goofiness to them. This is a movie I rewatch often. Like, the massacre scene alone is movie magic.

Damn, Elvis has been uploading content more frequently than before, that's fucking awesome, as long as he's happy with what he's doing, of course.

15:40 this kid is actually Miike’s actual child, so he witnessed this shit on set. Miike is nuts

This is one of my favourites! Definitely in my top 10, so thank you for this video.

Fun fact: the actor who played Jijii also directed tetsuo the iron man. I recommend watching it if you haven't already. Very weird, trippy and gross at moments but a good atmosphere

Shinya Tsukamoto who plays "JiiJii" (Old man) is the filmmaker who made "Tetso the ironman" and"Bullet ballet" and has worked with Miike and Tadanobu Asano in several films.

My man. I've watched so many of your videos and never checked your merch. It's fire homie

I am SO GLAD I watched this movie before watching this review, it had been on my watch list for a very long time and this gave me the kick in the butt that I needed. In spite of its goofy, over-the-top violence and gore, I loved watching it. There's something charming about Jijii's obviously "deep faked" face overimposed on a muscle man, the opening scene where Kakihara exhales smoke from his cheek scars (my fave effect), the scene where he unhinges his jaw and scrapes the skin off Long's fist... it's just fun!

One of my favorite graphic tees I own is my Supreme Ichi the Killer "Split" Tee. The graphic is the dude getting his head cut in half and it also has a nice little back text print

Watch Takashi Miike's other film 'Audition' next. It's a wholesome romantic comedy

I remember watching this when i was younger and it always frustrated me because Ichi took too long to kill anyone because of all the crying and beating off.

The violence is cartoony, but the content is absolutely disgusting. The subject matters are incredibly disturbing when you think about them further. I think it’s meant to be a dark comedy, and I think it hasn’t aged too poorly because of that. Also, the ending is awesome. Jijii was played by Shinya Tsukamoto, à director that you should most definetly cover! He deserves more love among the « extreme Japanese cinema » type of labeling.

the scene where the guy deafens himself with skewers the audio was pretty good

It was based off the manga of the same name, the same guy made homunculus: which is about a guy getting paid for drilling a hole in his head. It’s also very disturbing. They’re also made a movie based off it but I heard they goofed up on it. If you like disturbing media then I would definitely recommend the manga this was based off and homunculus.

i love this movie so much! Takeshi Miike is a genuis! makes me happy you're reviewing this

the OVA tho short has insane audio-visual at moments, its worth the watch (been years since i saw it but iirc ist around the origin rabbit scene)

You had my curiosity with great content but got my subscription with the iron chic in the background 👌

I appreciate reviews on movies like this so much because I would love to watch this and many others out there if there weren’t so many ‘grape’ scenes. I can handle a lot of gore and most violence in movies like this doesn’t get to me, but for some reason I just can’t sit through those types of scenes. Even if they don’t fully show it I just hate the feeling I get even when I’ve been fortunate enough to have never experienced something like that myself. Some of the best horror movies I’ve ever seen I can never re watch solely for that reason. It’s just too much of a very real and deep rooted fear of mine.

The thing is, the manga is even more graphic than the movie

your wine ad killed me, the laugh

Fun fact: the guy in the TV box thing is called kano, like in mortal Kombat. The guy who plays Kakihara would later play Raiden in the 2021 Mortal Kombat movie

If you think the movie is crazy, the manga is sooo much more insane (and I love it)

I like how you put the flowers there as a replacement, goes well with the movie lol

I like to think that the over the top blood sprays inspired the death blow from sekiro

HEEEELP, I just saw a YT notification about elvis' new video about Squid Game.... Pls tell me did I hallucinate???

Kakihara's actor actually uploaded all the sfx makings-of to his youtube channel, nearly 100% of it is practical!

8:30 Papa franku sends his regards

I remember watching this movie when I was maybe 12 years old. The internet made me do it.

Can I just say that I for one really enjoyed seeing the cute little raccoon popping up at the gruesome scenes - so cute!

Hearing "Ichi" pronounced "Itchy" managed to make me laugh every time lol

Watch Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, that movie is more brutal than this one in my opinion but both are really good.

I was just thinking of Takashi Miike movies the other day. Good stuff!

I loved this movie! It was so insane. I own the bloodbag DVD case with this movie. Ths "blood" dried out though. Cool little movie collector item though! This movie got me into Japanese cinema and I became a fan of Takashi Miike after this. He's a brilliant director.

Heh, would love to see you review Tetsuo: The Iron Man, it has some insane body horror (Especially since the director of that film has a part in this one as Jijii). Nice video Elvis!

I’m only in a few seconds in and this already looks insane. Great job as usual Elvis (:

so i've been binging your videos today, went to the most recent so maybe you'll see this; great content keep it up bro love the vibe you bring to all your videos.

We need to get elvis way more subscribers

It's rare that sponsors actually stand out to me, that being said I've just got my first 6 box of wine for my mom for her birthday lol.

Elvis doing a vid on an obscure movie that I've actually seen and enjoyed? Today is a lucky day!

The flowers on the suspension hooks had me cackling!!!! Such a fun censor edit!

Love the yakuza 0 soundtrack in the background at certain bits. Nice touch elvis

Never expected you would cover this movie...funny thing is, in spite of how incredibly gory and disturbing this movie is, the manga that it's based on is actually even MORE violent than the film adaptation, so much so that readers of the manga say it was actually HIGHLY TONED DOWN compared to the original. And having read it...I completely agree, the level of not just gore, but utter perversion and unnecessary acts of violence and just...generally fucked up stuff is just absolutely astounding for a series with only a little more than 100 chapters. But what really fascinated me was the highly introspective and psychological tone they took with Ichi, I mean, he had a whole character arc where he began to doubt Gigi's manipulation of him and decided to give up on killing, basically realizing that he is indeed mentally disturbed and needs to deal with his messed up past, and yet by the end he just ends up going back on it due to his own degenerate desire to murder along with a little push from Gigi. Unfortunately a lot of the interesting elements of his character were undermined by the absolute cop out ending they pulled at the very last chapter, not gonna spoil it but for a writer with the finesse and realism in how he addresses mental issues (he also wrote Homonculus, which is a similarly dark, yet somewhat more tasteful work focused on the human condition and psychological trauma) the way Ichi's character arc is finished off is superbly underwhelming, though still better than the movie's ending. Also the manga has almost none of the issues with special effects and actually has way better artwork than you'd expect for what is pretty much overdramatic torture p**n

I JUST FINISHED THE MANGA LIKE 3 WEEKS AGO! ELVIS THIS IS A GIFT AND I LOVE YOU (also highly recommend the manga to anyone who can stomach this kinda thing)

4:44 can we get a round of applause for this detail

"itchy the killer" 😭😭😭

It s really interesting how the brutality of violence is easier to digest when is over the top

I used to binge tons of Asian horror films while I was in high school, so seeing you cover this one was a really nice surprise. A few others I feel you might be interested in are: Visitor Q Noriko’s Dinner Table Save the Green Planet Strange Circus A Tale of Two Sisters Noroi 3 Extremes

This will always be one of my favorite movies because of how bizarre it is, but Audition by Takishi Miike made me quezzy and I haven't felt that way since Martyrs

Elvis' whole demeanor is a welcome breath of fresh air

"I Saw The Devil" must also be part of that conversation

Ahhhh i love that you're talking about Ichi. My friend showed me this one around last Christmas and I adore the vibe of it. An insanely dark parody of superhero films centered around the antagonist, a sato masochistic yakuza boss, and our "hero" is this psycho incel man baby that dresses up like a comic book hero. Plus, anytime this psycho incel baby goes on a rampage, he ends up also killing the people he was meant to save. It's funny, cause anyone Ichi slaughters that is considered a villain, it is usually shown with extremely goofy effects, however, when Ichi kills an innocent, it is shown in total brutally. Love this film.

it’s really cool that you were able to get nicholas cage to stand in the back of your room for this video

I got this movie on DVD way back, it came in an "IV bag full of blood", the fake blood evaporated years ago though lol

So much Elvis content lately, I’m loving it

gosh, i totally forgot about Ichi the killer, i remember i saw an OVA long time ago of a cancelled Ichi the killer anime, it was insane

When I was younger I was in a phase where I only watched movies like this (Tokyo gore police, tome, etc) and I fricking loved ichi the killer. Even now, when I see something related to that I kinda Fangirl about it. I was in Tokyo a few years ago and I also went to the madame tussauds there and they had Kakihara as a wax figure. LOVED IT!! Never expected that! I even started to read the manga but I never finished it though... The actor of Kakihara also starred in a movie that would totally fit onto your channel. It's called survive style 5+, PLEASE check it out!

cant believe how convincing the practical effects are for this movie considering its age and its obvious budget (or lack thereof)

This brought back memories of my 2nd boyfriend and his college housemates, once a week we'd host a movie night and one of the housemates chose this on the same night we did our cereal judging night, so lots of people turned out. Needless to say not many came back after that.. oh memories.

I read the manga before I saw the movie, and honestly believe the film is better. Both are needlessly violent, sexually exploitative, and painfully cringey at times. But the character design in both is fantastic, and Ichis emotional and sexual journey is interesting to read in the manga. The film has less violence somehow, while the manga explores more sexually deviant ideas and how they relate to phsyological trauma. The story in the film is more easily understood however, and the actor for Kakihara steals the show. The music is also intriguing. Takashi Miike is a great director, who directed the horror comedy Gozu, which I Iove. the author of the manga wrote a near masterpiece called Homunculus, which I recommend. It explores what makes someone human and etc. It got a live action film on Netflix that isnt really worth anybodies time. Anyway, thanks for reading :) Btw, Im sorry, but your pronunciation of a few names really bothered me. Ichi is pronounced Ee-chee, the japanese word for 1. His real name is unknown. Karins name is pronounced Car-reen.

There's a prequel too, 1 - Ichi which I've had since 2003.

I think you should cover “The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover” You want dread? You want something fucked up? Watch

In high school I used to love movies like this! My favorites were Big Man Japan, RoboGeisha, Shaolin Grandma, and The Machine Girl.

man: hung with meat hooks and gets hot oil all over his body. elvis: F L O W E R S

Oh hell yeah, didn't expect to see you review this one, love this movie, the prequel anime is just as fking crazy too. 😂

This movie is a classic. I always recommend it to people I meet just to see their reactions.

The deltarune music was much appreciated my guy. Went from great Elvis video to GREAT Elvis video

I remember going into this movie completely blind a few years ago.. I'd never heard of the manga and i had NO clue what i was in for.. Boy, that was a fuckin experience..

Well, we watch this in our film appreciation class. We had a cool professor back then.

🤣😭😭THE SOUND EFFECT @ 1:50 PLS-

I love this movie, kakahari is one of my favorite characters of all time. Thinking of him makes me feel okay when I want to die. So cool you did a review on this movie