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Sukiyaki Western Django
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
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Based on 9 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Western
Written by:
Takashi Miike
Masa Nakamura
Directed by: Takashi Miike
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 29, 2008
DVD: November 11, 2008
Running Time: 121 minutes, Color
Origin: Japan
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The ideal viewer is a Miike fan...You know who you are.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Mariko McDonald
While it is a glossy crowd pleaser, it still has a few typically off the wall, classic Miike touches.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Sam Adams
Loses some of its appeal once the novelty of Miike's conceptual shenanigans wears off.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Darkly funny (par for the course with Miike), visually stunning and full of references to other films.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
In the world of pulp movies, where horror, westerns and Asian exploitation borrow and blend with each other, there's a point where the cross-genre mishmash begins to feel like gobbledegook. That's definitely the case with Sukiyaki Western Django.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
Director Takashi Miike's dish of sukiyaki spaghetti ala Sergio Corbucci is badly seasoned with scraps of reservoir dogs.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
A lightweight goof that feels a little dashed-off.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Scott J. gave it a10:
This movie is a hyperactive live action anime-manga twist on the Italian Western. Like Alex Cox's "Straight to Hell," this film blends two genres (here, Chanbara/Samurai and the Italian Western) to give us something surreal, shocking, and ironic. The Japanese cast speak English in an almost stereotypical "ESL" way and it comes off like a riff on the crappy dubs Asian movies of the 70s got in the West. Quentin does his bit perfectly and even switches to a stereotypical "white man doing a Japanese accent" for some dialogue. Everything is knowingly artificial and it works - well. A saloon features a Japanese theater stage, where an interpretive dance based on a variety of Asian dance forms is performed; instead of the usual painted backdrop found in old westerns, here we have a painted Japanese screen as backing; katanas fly against six-shooters; the clothes are a hodgepodge of street gang, old west, and samurai; The War of the Roses meets Yojimbo meets Fistful of Dollars. All in all, I am extremely pleased and enjoy the film immensely. Gets more repeat viewing than Kill Bill at my house.
[Anonymous] gave it a6:
Hmm...miike should stick with horror/shock. i won't go as far as to say tarantino's movies are garbage, as that has nothing to do with this movie because he doesn't direct it. i suppose if i were japanese i would get a kick out of the actors speaking english...but as an american viewer it's a bit muddled. lot's of bits and pieces from other westerns and some awkward comedic relief drag it down. miike's got a flair for style, though.
Mike H gave it an8:
This movie was hilarious and had me laughing the whole way through!
Jay H. gave it a3:
I have never liked films like this and doubt I ever will. Anything Tarantino touches to me is garbage. It is well photographed, the acting is fair at best but the story is relentlessly boring.
