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You really do. As cheesy as it sounds, I'm glad that I had seen Visitor Q before seeing Ichi the Killer. To tell you the truth, I went into Ichi expecting a JA Yakuza film (blood, guts, gore, torture, fighting, violence), but when I realized that it was more the deconstruction of the weakness and codependence of man with a lot of the fighting off scene, instead of being disappointed, I was actually impressed at how Miike can take a genre piece and make it his own. I think that viewing Visitor Q (and to a lesser extent, Audition and The Box) before Ichi enabled me to better understand and deconstruct it afterwards (as opposed to my philistine friends who pretty much had comments like, "ICHI'S WEARING A TURTLE SUIT!" ... sigh).
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