Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1)

This wonderfully gorey film pushes the taste of disgusting foreign movies way beyond the envelope. That is precisely why I love it. Imagine the mercilessness of Hostile, and then imagine what it would have been like if the director had actually shown the gruesome things that the shots led up to. In Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike really shows his one-of-a-kind director style of showing actual revolting torture (like suspension with having hot oil poured over you needles stuck in your face) and still having an interesting plot. There is one scene where the anti-hero cuts off his tongue and offers it to someone. It's stuff like that that make you think "holy crap, I know they can show that, but why the hell would they want to?"