Sukiyaki Western Django

Japan 2007, 121 minutes
Dir. Takashi Miike
Genres: Action/Adventure / Western

Feat. Ando Masanobu, Yusuke Iseya, Renji Ishibashi, Yoshino Kimura, Quentin Tarantino

Aroview: Mashing spaghetti western and samurai farce, Takashi Miike spins an east-meets-west tale of two rival clans attempting to bolster their shot at victory by enticing a gifted gunman to their side.

Challenging his all-Japanese cast to pronounce their dialogue in thickly-accented American English, Miike establishes a nonsensical tone, with his freestyle filmmaking oscillating between inspired lunacy and half-baked practical jokes. While the constant wisecracking wears thin and falls short of director’s most unpredictable work, this is best enjoyed as a blinding post-modern western, thick with colour-coded costuming, retro-outfitting, and outlaw poses. Quentin Tarantino appears in a conspicuous cameo.

NZ International Film Festival 2008

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1 star (Turkey) My least favourite Miike film to date, Sukiyaki is a strange blend of genres that never quite feels like more than a B-grade pantomime set. It also tries a little too hard to be funny, and the action sequences don't have the same Miike flair. ~Tom H