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- 2008
- R
- First Look International
- 2 h 1 m
- 2008
- R
- First Look International
- 2 h 1 m
Summary 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 ...
Directed By: Takashi Miike
Written By: Masa Nakamura, Takashi Miike
- 2008
- R
- First Look International
- 2 h 1 m
- 2008
- R
- First Look International
- 2 h 1 m
Sukiyaki Western Django
55
6.8
Where to Watch
Summary 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 ...
Directed By: Takashi Miike
Written By: Masa Nakamura, Takashi Miike
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
55
31% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
62% Mixed
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8 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
55
31% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
62% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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.
While it is a glossy crowd pleaser, it still has a few typically off the wall, classic Miike touches.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
6.8
65% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
24% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
12% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
6.8
65% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
24% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
12% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
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A gorgeous, handcrafted, Japanese masterpiece that lets itself do whatever it pleases. And it does so with, raw, cinematic beauty never before seen by the likes of me. It's raw, unapologetic, nature goes on in perfect synchrony with the pace of life. The boundaries of reality are pushed while never actually leaving it. It's gritty, muddy, bloody and sexy all at the same time and any other time this film chooses. This flick never stops entertaining at any second. A well lit setting or location makes the whole production ultra real and life like. A special guest appearance adds to the already high excitement level for this production. Hang on tight while the Reds and the Whites have it out in the Wild West.
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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.
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.
Darkly funny (par for the course with Miike), visually stunning and full of references to other films.
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.
Not even a brief appearance by Quentin Tarantino and a ton of references to other movies enlivens the proceedings much.
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 **** of Dollars. All in all, I am extremely pleased and enjoy the film immensely. Gets more repeat viewing than Kill Bill at my house.
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Une sorte de prélude au western Django de Tarantino (avec une apparition de Tarantino dedans) mais à la manière japonaise sous la houlette du cinglé Takashi Miike dont la filmographie houleuse s'avère très souvent des plus douteuses. Couleurs saturées, acteurs japonais saturés de saké, scénario de gogolito pour une poignée de yens, humour (?) outré tarantineux pas frais, ce Sukiyaki est immangeable. Une sombre et abyssale débilité.
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Production Company
A-Team,
Dentsu,
Geneon Entertainment,
Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Nagoya TV),
Scotty Gelt Productions,
Sedic International,
Shogakukan,
Sony Pictures Releasing,
Sukiyaki Western Django Film Partners,
TV Asahi,
Toei Company,
Tokyu Recreation
Release Date Aug 29, 2008
Duration 2 h 1 m
Rating R
Tagline An epic tale of blood, lust and greed.
Awards
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Mainichi Film Concours
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Fantasia Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
