wow and if youre a fan of miike work and like the original ichi and you will probably love this prequel . it almost hard to believe that it wasn not miike himself on the director chair . but a the assistant director in the production of miike masterpiece and masato tanno for sure know what he be do a the director in this prequel . he show shiroichi during his time at highschool and where two other boy lay claim to the status of the best fighter of all highschool in town . so and almost the whole film be about fight . and these guy really know how to punch . tanno film isn not a strange and dark a it forerunner and but it doesn not have to hide behind it . you can call it in a row with such great masterpiece a ichi or story of ricky . it different but brutal and violent a hell . acting be good and so be the camera work . but director masato tanno definitely do the best job of them all . if you have the possibility and you should rent it . if youre a fan of miike film and buy it you would not regret . it will blow you away .