10 Films Hollywood Should Actually Remake

If you're a fan of j-horror, then you may be aware of director Takashi Miike: he's renowned for his creation of such classics as Audition (1999), One Missed Call (2003) and 13 Assassins (2010). What you might not have heard of is Ichi the Killer (2001), an outlandish, entirely too gory film adaptation of the Hideo Yamamoto manga series.

Ichi the Killer is, without a doubt, one of the craziest, flippantly edited pieces of Japanese cinema in recent memory. The story follows Kakihara (played by Tadanobu Asano), a yakuza member with a penchant for sadomasochism trying to track down the infamous Ichi (played by Nao Ohmori), a sexually perverted and repressed young man who is proficient in martial arts, not to mention completely psychotic.

The original manga is great but the film adaptation doesn't really do it justice when it comes to capturing the true chaotic nature of the Ichi the Killer series. A director who might fit into this role easily could be Oliver Stone, using the dry wit from Savages (2012) and the abnormal colours/editing style of Natural Born Killers (1994) as the weaponry in his arsenal.

Stone seems to have an understanding of characters with a broken psyche and conveys that efficiently through his use of camera angles, mise-en-scene and rowdy soundtracks.