Evil Under the Sun Charles' Favorites Takashi Miike's ICHI THE KILLER

Takashi Miike's ICHI THE KILLER has endured as one of the most influential pieces of genre filmmaking of the last two decades

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Anchored by an abundance of nuanced performances from a gifted ensemble—including a tight-jawed Sterling Hayden and a sultry Marilyn Monroe in her breakout role—this gritty crime classic by John Huston climaxes in a meticulously detailed anatomy of a robbery that has reverberated through the genre ever since

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Evil Under the Sun Charles' Favorites Takashi Miike's ICHI THE KILLERAn investigation involving a phony diamond leads Belgian super sleuth Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) to a luxury island resort in the Adriatic. The woman (Diana Rigg) he was traveling there to question is found strangled to death, leaving Poirot to make his way through a list of nine suspects none of whom were particularly fond of the deceased. James Mason, Roddy McDowall, Maggie Smith also star in Agatha Christie's whodunit. 117 min. Widescreen;