Ichi the Killer, do it pass as kino?

Ichi the Killer, do it pass as kino?

Babby's first edgy shit foreign film that he will use to show off to his friends who won't give a shit and actually will think less of him for it,

It's a good movie.

Or it's this

オーディション > 殺し屋1

Pretty ok for chink-kino

what a fucked up movie

As far as I'm concerned the awesome piece of the turture porn. The yikes-est moment comes where a whore's nipples get slashed by the thongs.

Very bad projection.

I remember watching this as a kid.

full of edge

Waste of an awesome premise. That poster sets you up to expect A Clockwork Orange as interpreted by Dario Argento but then the whole movie looks like it was filmed inside a hospital just like every other Japanese movie.

Guy on the poster was entertaining but the movie didn't really do anything with the questions about violence it brought up. It's just a whole bunch of cg gore and then it ends.

Fuck off. Riki-Oh is an aesthetic achievement. The over the top presentation combined with the utterly sincere execution makes me feel like I'm watching something legendary.

>trust me this schlock i ironically enjoy is actually a great movie
Yeah alright

Fuck yeah, it's funkino
Not everything has to be a po-faced meditation on existentialism to be art

>ironically enjoy
What gave you the impression I ironically like it? I like Riki-Oh because its straight up presentation of something that could easily come off as absurd lets me get into it on a level that most other big action movies can't. Riki-Oh doesn't spout off any one-liners or joke around like an asshole for half the movie, it feels like a real heroic struggle that I can get behind. The first time I saw the movie I was rooting for Riki-Oh like I hadn't any protagonist in a movie in years.

because it's hot dogshit
Next you'll be telling me about how The Room moved you to tears.

You are tearing me apart user!

Think about it though, do you really have any particular problems with Riki-Oh or does it just disagree with your notion of what an action movie is meant to be? Do you watch a lot of Chinese stuff? If you've seen a lot of martial arts movies I don't see what in Riki-Oh you could find so offensive. A lot of people just don't like those kinds of movies. Is it something specific to Riki-Oh you hate?

>but then the whole movie looks like it was filmed inside a hospital just like every other Japanese movie.

Fuck man this so true, why do so many jap movies look like they were filmed in a hospital?

Something about their style feels incredibly clean to the point where when combined with a modern setting it creates a feeling of sterility.

A friend of mine went to Japan a few years ago and he commented on how big and grey all of their cities are. When you see photos taken from high places during the day you really get the impression that Japan is actually a massive piece of grey paper rather than a futuristic neon dystopia. The whole country's so clean and developed that it's kind of weird to look at without some kind of stylish filter over the top.

I think that movies like Ichi the Killer are Japan presented how it actually looks. It's pretty disappointing and dull.

Yes!

Japan is as dull to americanas as america is to euros!!!

No, but Flower and Snake Zero does.