As the two circle each other in a deadly dance, everyone who crosses their path meets a horrific end. Both the desires of the enemies remain unsatisfied and so the cycle continues as we see the final mysterious gaze of the young man in black clothing. Takeshi is the son of Kaneko, one of Kakihara's henchmen. CJ Mac 2,265 views.
There are so many different interpretations for this movie's ending but that's mine.
George Carlin - Stand Up About Religion - Duration: 32:42. As for Ichi and Jijii being the same person... it's possible. A young man resembling an older Takeshi leaves the park with a group of schoolchildren. In the end, though, Ichi did stop crying, and they had their final fight which ended in Kakihara falling to his death. CJ Mac 2,265 views. Ichi the Killer Koroshiya Ichi 殺し屋1. As his wish cannot be fulfilled, he has no more reason to live and decides to take his life by inserting his needles into his ears. However, it is such a fantastic film that no Japanese film site would be complete without it. Hawks.
The film has garnered controversy due to its graphic depictions of violence and cruelty, and has been banned in several countries.In a flashback, Ichi masturbates on an apartment balcony while watching a Kakihara visits an underworld night club with other gang members.
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Takeshi wanted to make like Ichi and rid the world of bullies and so hanged Jiji as he was the real bully. JavaScript is disabled. But then after revealing Kakihara's intact forehead we see a second reaction of hysteric laughter as Jiji realizes that things didn't go his way and that his plan of killing Kakihara was failure. The ending of ichi the killer?
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With Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ohmori, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun. He reveals that although he helped clean up the murder scene, it was Ichi who killed Anjo, and Kakihara has now been targeted. Looking to watch Ichi The Killer? Any ideas?I believe that Ichi died but Takeshi (the little boy) didn't. Ichi the Killer: For the Love of Violence - Duration: 9:31. He only wanted Kakihara dead, so now that it had happened he hanged himself. Status. Directed by Takashi Miike. - i remember seeing a clip of it somewhereI agree with most of this... however, I don't think Kakihara dies at the end - having missed out on the one thing he wanted most - being killed by Ichi, he's left to endure life, with only his mouth to keep him company... Miike's punishment for him if you will. Watch out for the gratuitous adult content though.
When Sailor assaults him, Ichi reflexively kills her as well. Matti Holden Recommended for you.
At Suzuki's prompting, Kakihara is kicked out of the While bicycling in the evening, Ichi assaults one of three boys bullying a fourth named Takeshi. Dennis Harvey said for
I'm not sure what happened to Takeshi, I'm guessing he just ran off after seeing Ichi dead. Just before leaving the suicide scene, we see and imagined gaze of an untainted Kakihara staring at him and possibly laughing?. You saw him at the end so he can't have died. A masochistic yakuza and a vicious hero face off in Takashi Miike's gory cult hit.Cast: Asano Tadanobu, Ohmori Nao, Shin'ya TsukamotoIf you are in the right mindset, this movie can be fun. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. If you're not in the mood for some crazy visuals and overload of blood and gore than pass. Therefore his will for not killing anymore could have been externalized by a command from Jiji.If you're familiar with hypnosis, then you've no doubt heard of Master Hypnotist Steve G. Jones.
The only thing I don't get about the ending is when you see Kakihara in the blue room sitting in the bathtub, and his jaw drops, what do you think that's about?Kakihara's search for his sadistic boss is replaced by the search of the ultimate sadist Ichi. !I kinda agree with your first thought...thats what I thought happened also...I agree with most of what you said, kakihara sticks those needles in his ears and we see them pierce his brain and this leads onto his fantasy of the inevitable confrontation with ichi, yet he kills himself, but i think in the end that the boy, Takeshi kills Ichi, probably kicks him to death, and that Jiji takes the boy, to use him again like he did with Ichi, yet the boy somehow, possibly finds out that jiji uses him hangs him as we see at the end of the film, when Takeshi walks off and turns to look at the camera, though i may be wrong, possibly the thing you said about the killer can be in all of us is true. 9:31. Jijii is also led to believe the same thing. He tells Anjo's girlfriend, an English-speaking Chinese prostitute named Karen (Jijii feeds Kakihara rumors suggesting that Suzuki (Kakihara and gang members raid a hotel room and capture Kano, a drug-addled member of the cleaning crew.
Afterwards, he tells her that he will be the one beating her up now. Oh I forgot, I think Ichi died because he simply bled to death from the bullet wound in his leg. The second ending, he imagined that ichi had gotten up but Kakihara might have actually jumped off the top of the building and killed himself. Ichi is a repressed man who becomes aroused only when inflicting violence - which he does at a level few others can match. The aim of a sadist is to destroy the ego of his victim, but this was literally impossible from the beginning as the ultimate masochist was Kakihara. Later Jiji comes to inspect his dead body with a sort of melancholia as his object of so much joy is now dead and therefore his source of enjoyment is finished. In a flashback, Ichi masturbates on an apartment balcony while watching a pimp assault a prostitute within. The girl did send reports about Ichi to the "higher-up". To turn Ichi into a complete killer, Jijii has Karen, Anjo's woman and Jijii's friend, seduce Ichi by pretending to be the woman in his false memory. Kaneko finds a brothel-keeper assaulting Ichi in an alley and, remembering his own long-ago rescue by a member of the Anjo gang, helps Ichi out.