</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (animemaster &#064; Jan 1 2004, 03:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> So from what i gather, the title is something like Killer no.1. I&#39;ve seen the trailer but that wasn&#39;t enough for me to get some type of idea as to what exactly it was about. Apart from special effects, blood and tongues being cut, does the movie have any kind of depth to it? Just a bit curious as to why there was a lot of hype surrounding it.


And by chance was the movie with Marlon Wayans Requiem for a dream? I think that film dealt with the effects of drugs. I remember seeing a clip on kazaa years ago when I read an article reading about substance abuse. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Yeah thats its requiem for a dream... No Ichi the killer IMO had no depth what so ever. The basic plot is these people give these fake memories to a kid who is your standard crying sobbing whiny bitch, but once he get angry he lashes out and kills people with this wierd and most of the time very stupid looking knife hidden in the heel of his boots in his ridiculous costume. The actor that plays Ichi does a good job at making him seem truely pathetic. I kinda dozed through the rest of the movie the twice i&#39;ve seen it. However there some yakuza group with a &quot;pure masochist&quot; as the branch leader his name escapes me but he has rings that close his mouth making him look rather bad guy esuqe. As far as i can tell the movie revolves around said yakuza guy yearning to meet ichi so he can expierence true pain and ichi running around get Bjs from beat up hooker and masterbating outside the window of some pimp who beats his whores. I make it sound much more interesting than it really is honestly... I watched the movie because i had heard the name over and over but nothing about it. There some sub plot to it some dude an ex cop on the yakuza pay roll is trying to get his son away from the gangster life. Theres some other elements to it that are escaping my memory but not enough to make the movie worth while. The ending is rather lame as well.... Personally i&#39;d reccomend you don&#39;t pay for it. But if you got the time and bandwidth you may as well DL it. At times the computer generated stuff looks good but most of the time its rather reminiscient of Godzillaesque cheezyness.

Theres mild violence and several torture scenes which pouring boiling tempura oil on some dude whilst hes hung from hooks that are dug into his muscle or whatever is just not my type of intertainment. Theres a couple of other scenes like that some dude cuts out his tounge and for the rest of the series speak as if he has no tounge. Lots of very very strange and wholly un understandable charcters from the western perspective. I hear the manga is quite good if your into that type of thing.