Summaries

How Ichi becomes the Killer. The movie is a pre-quel to Takashi Miike's Koroshiya 1 (Ichi - The Killer).

We follow Ichi during his high school years. Mr. Dai is the best fighter in school... whenever he fights Ichi is there and has a huge smile on his face. Mr. Dai thinks that Ichi is laughing at him but in fact he enjoys watching the violence that goes through the fights. Everyone is bullying, taunting and making fun of Ichi... even little kids from his karate class. Yet Ichi refuses to let go of his anger and fight others. Just when Mr. Dai is about to get Ichi, a new transfer student starts to make his own laws... by beating up everyone and breaking their bones! In a fight with the new student, Mr. Dai ends up on the ground, beaten and broken up from almost everywhere. It seems like this new guy wants to fight Ichi because supposedly he is the only one that could give him some challenge.—ARCVILE

Details

Keywords
  • fight
  • violence
  • high school
  • bullying
  • vomiting
Genres
  • Action
  • Thriller
  • Drama
Release date Jan 23, 2003
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin Japan
Language Japanese
Filming locations Japan

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 23m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby Digital
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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