When Kakihara's cell phone rings, the ringtone is the movie's theme song ... Despite his ruthless anti-hero persona in Ichi the Killer, Tadonobu Asano is more relaxed and candid in person.

Soon enough Kakihara and his men encounter Ichi, a psychotic, sexually-repressed young man with amazing martial arts abilities and blades that come out of his shoes. One by one Ichi takes out ...