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Sukiyaki Western Django
First Look Studios
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MPAA RATING: R for strong violence, including a rape
Starring
Hideaki Ito,
Koichi Sato,
Yusuke Iseya,
Quentin Tarantino,
Masanobu Ando,
Takaaki Ishibashi,
Yoshino Kimura,
and
Teruyuki Kagawa
Famed Japanese auteur Takashi Miike, best known for cult classics "Audition", "Ichi the Killer", and "The City of Lost Souls", redefines the spaghetti Western with Sukiyaki Western Django, a tale written in blood. Two clans, Genji, the white clan led by Yoshitsune, and Heike, the red clan led by Kiyomori, battle for a legendary treasure hidden in a desolate mountain town. One day, a lone gunman, burdened with deep emotional scars but blessed with incredible shooting skills, drifts into town. Two clans try to woo the lone gunman to their sides, but he has ulterior motives. Dirty tricks, betrayal, desire and love collide as the situation erupts into a final, explosive showdown. (First Look Studios)
GENRE(S): |
Action
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Western
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WRITTEN BY: |
Takashi Miike
Masa Nakamura
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DIRECTED BY: |
Takashi Miike
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RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: August 29, 2008
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RUNNING TIME: |
121 minutes, Color |
ORIGIN: |
Japan |
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80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Once you get past the question of why someone would make a movie this artificial in the first place and move on to the answer (purely for the hell of it), Sukiyaki Western Django is a blood-drenched, dynamite, often hilarious and uniquely weird big-screen entertainment.
75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The ideal viewer is a Miike fan...You know who you are.
70
Film Threat
Mariko McDonald
While it is a glossy crowd pleaser, it still has a few typically off the wall, classic Miike touches.
67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Sam Adams
Loses some of its appeal once the novelty of Miike's conceptual shenanigans wears off.
60
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
This delirious spaghetti eastern could only have come from the boiling brain of Takashi Miike, the prolific Japanese auteur whose spectacularly uneven films account for the lion's share of the past decade's most utterly batshit movie moments.
50
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
More often there is a frantic, compulsive quality to the action. Fanboy intoxication with the idea of formal ingenuity too often stands in for the thing itself.
50
Variety
Derek Elley
Basic joke wears off after five minutes, and many bystanders will start to head out of town. But genre/Asian buffs prepared to ride shotgun for two hours will be rewarded with some classy action sequences and densely accoutred widescreen lensing.
50
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Darkly funny (par for the course with Miike), visually stunning and full of references to other films.
50
Christian Science Monitor
Robert Koehler
Speaking of Tarantino, who should never be allowed to act under any circumstance, he's cast in a key storytelling role, and it's one indication among many that the whole project is little more than a stunt.
40
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
A lightweight goof that feels a little dashed-off.
30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Not even a brief appearance by Quentin Tarantino and a ton of references to other movies enlivens the proceedings much.
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