Ichi the Killer Director: Takashi Miike Japan| 2001. 125 mins. Book cinema tickets In this truly berserk, blood-soaked yakuza thriller, the psychopathic Ichi slaughters a mob boss and is in turn pursued by the victim’s even more sadistic right-hand man, who slices and dices his way through most of the cast in a variety of gruesome ways. The most extreme film yet from Takashi Miike, director of Audition. Director: Takashi Miike Japan| 2001. 125 mins.