My dvd arrived yesterday afternoon, and I checked it out last night (in the god aweful heat). I was pleasantly surprised, the cuts may hurt Ichi as a piece of "art", but they actually helped it's entertainment value, I found the cut version alot more enjoyable to watch. The over the top scenes are important but really make the movie difficult to enjoy, they also tended to distract you from the plot and characters. I'm not saying this version is a better movie, it's just better entertainment. It's still way too violent and disgusting for the average person.

Here's a really poor list of cuts, it's been about 5 months since I saw the uncut, and I was eating dinner during the dvd, and I have an all around bad memory. I also don't remember most of the characters names, so bear with me.

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CUTS (these are mostly "no duh"s)

hot oil torture scene - There are definitely some cuts here, they hardly show the oil part at all, I think there was some face poking they cut too.

sadist boss beats hooker - I think both of these scenes are cut, the second is definitely cut (when Ichi kills the hooker), the first seemed shorter and more tolerable than I remember, but maybe I've just become desensitized to watching women get beat up (yeeesh), the semen scene (or most of it) is still intact.

Ichi cuts off tongue - Almost all this scene is here, but there is definitely something missing.

Ichi tortures guy in tv - I actually can't remember what happened on the dvd (or really in the movie), but I think this was cut.

Interrogating/killing Long's hooker - I think this is where the longest (of the violent) cuts are, maybe even a couple minutes worth. I remember these parts going on way too long. The nipple scene is cut. Lots of just plain beating is gone. The scene where the ex-cop gangster beats her to death is cut.

Torturing Long - The scene where the interogator tries to break and bend Long into pieces is cut. I think there may be cuts when Ichi is torturing him also.

Karen dies - I think just the neck slash is missing from this.

Plot/Character Development cuts - I was surprised there were alot of these, they are blurred together in my memory so they are tough to pinpoint. There is alot of character development between Ichi, the ex-cop gangster, his son, and maybe Jijii. Most of that is missing, none of it had anything vile in it, I think it was just cut to help the pacing (and it did, with the only loss of character dev to the ex-cop). In particular there is a scene where the ex-cop relates information about how a gangster (the one who gets manhandled by Jijii) helped him when he was getting bullied (he may have been telling this story to Ichi, I think I remember him protecting Ichi at one point, maybe a restaurant, but this has mostly faded from memory). I think the majority of the cuts are from this section.

Ichi cuts? - I also thought I remembered there being scene after unbearable scene of Ichi remembering fake memories and being all around annoying. These scenes are mostly the same, so I can't pinpoint if any of them are missing. It's possible I was just prepared for it this time, so it was as annoying. I thought there was alot more interaction between Ichi and Jijii.

I think those were the only things I noticed, but there are probably more.

I think the scene with the naked gangster running down the street was just that way in the movie, supposed to be cute, not really important to the plot.