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[arron wardlaw]

i recently wathed the highly recommended itchi the killer after being told it is a challenge to watch ( red rag to a bull) . i was left pretty disappointed overall with only one great death scene and a really disappointing story, along with lots of pontless masturbation ( on screen, by the way). i dont think the asian market has quite nailed the gangster slasher genre as well as the supernatural chiller. has anybody else had films described as dificult to watch and then been let down. or the other way about

[The Mothman]

Finally, someone agrees with me. this movie sucked. The final fight scene was one of the biggest let-downs ever.

[The STE]

it's Ichi, not Itchi. Itchi is a character on The Simpsons

[arron wardlaw]

sorry dude its enough to bring you out in a rash , huh ?

[zwoti]

hopefully you didn't catch the uk version

[The_Return]

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[The_Return]

Originally posted by The STE
it's Ichi, not Itchi. Itchi is a character on The Simpsons

Itchy, actually

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/itchy_scratchy_poster_L.jpg

[The STE]

Originally posted by The_Return
Itchy, actually

http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/itchy_scratchy_poster_L.jpg

Nono, it's Itchi. I watch the gay European version of the Simpsons. All the Y's are I's, and all the O's have Heavy Metal umlauts over them

[arron wardlaw]

isnt this forum fanny-tastic you just never know where a thread is going to end up

[HappyCamper]

i tried watching 'Gozu' and couldn't even get farther than half an hour through it, it's just too damn slow!

[zwoti]

Originally posted by arron wardlaw
isnt this forum fanny-tastic you just never know where a thread is going to end up

normally it's tits

[arron wardlaw]

nice one zwoti , i see what you did there. what part of uk you from

[zwoti]

Originally posted by arron wardlaw
nice one zwoti , i see what you did there. what part of uk you from

west midlands

[The Mothman]

Originally posted by zwoti
hopefully you didn't catch the uk version

I think thats the one that i saw, because all the dubbing was done with british accents.

[zwoti]

Originally posted by The Mothman
I think thats the one that i saw, because all the dubbing was done with british accents.

uk version was cut to ribbons

[The Mothman]

well, that mgiht have been the one i saw. which parts were cut out? ill be able to tell you if i havnt seen it the parts you are talking about yet. I think it probably was the UK version, because i remember it not being very bloody at all.

[zwoti]

from melonfarmers,

The BBFC has required 11 cuts (approximately three and a quarter minutes of screen time) to the Japanese cinema film Ichi the Killer. The cuts have been made to remove extreme sexualised violence. These are the most substantial cuts required by the BBFC to an 18 rated film since 1994.

The Board's main concern is with content which is likely to promote harmful activity. The Board's Guidelines constrain, in particular, depictions which eroticise or appear to endorse sexual violence. Of specific concern are sexual images in a violent context which are designed to titillate. The Guidelines take account of academic research which indicates that violence when mixed with explicit sexual images (women forcibly stripped, shots which linger on naked breasts or genitalia during rape or assault) may produce a harmful response in some viewers.

The scenes cut from Ichi the Killer include naked women being sexually mutilated or beaten or killed. They contain images of erotically explicit violence which have never been passed by the BBFC at any classification level.

Ichi the Killer is a live action film based on a popular Japanese manga comic. Ichi, who has unusual powers, is caught in a conflict between two rival yakuza gangs. The film taken as a whole belongs to a genre of vivid fantasy violence which has been part of Japanese cinema for many years. The Board does not consider that the cartoon-like damage perpetrated by male gangsters on one another in the rest of the film is likely, at the adult classification level, to inspire emulation. However, this contrasts sharply with the eroticized scenes of violence against female characters which the Board has cut. These scenes appear to the Board to have no function other than the pleasure of the onlooker.

[Gnaghi]

Did you by chance watch the r-rated version or the directors cut cause that'll make a big diff.

[Gnaghi]

Never mind its pretty obvious now. Watch the unrated version if you come across it

[bloodrayne]

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