Ichi The Killer Manga Analysis

1319 Words6 Pages

Second part of the trilogy based on the manga by Tetsuya Koshiba and Hideo Yamamoto, who also was responsible for the Ichi the Killer manga.
The film deals with the phenomenon of "Enjo Kosai", where high school girls prostitute themselves to older men in order to buy clothes, smartphones, and in general things they could not buy in their capacity as students.
The film however, takes a step forward since it tells the tale of a Kuni, a man who is set on punishing those girls by having sex with them and not paying, while calling his operation Stop the Bitch campaign. Eventually he steps in a "hotel" where wvery girl is dressed as a middle school student and pays to spend the night with all of them. And he has brought vegetables.
Kosuke Suzuki directs a 57-minute film that looks like a perverted comic, filled with insanity and erotic preposterousness including a woman dressed as a nurse that takes care of a man dressed as a baby,
18. Bodyguard Kiba (Takashi Miike, 1993)
One of the best films from Takashi Miike 's straight-to-video days, Bodyguard Kiba tells the story of Junpei, a former Yakuza who has stolen 500 million yen from his boss. He manages to escape their punishment but ends up in jail. After five years, he is released and hires bodyguard Kiba to protect him, while he accesses the hidden loot and finds his girlfriend.
From that point on, the movie is an endless succesion of battles between Kiba and the Yakuza and a bunch of students from a dojo, who are infuriated

More about Ichi The Killer Manga Analysis

Open Document