Sukiyaki Western Django (Bloody Benton Cover) (Steelbook Packaging) R

(Tin Box) w/ Quentin Tarantino
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 11, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Millennium
  • Packaging: Keep Case
  • Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
  • Audio:
    • (unspecified) - English

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Entertainment Reviews:

Rotten56%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 55

Spilled57%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 10,317
Miike's 'wild east' take on the western genre is a colourfully violent stand-off of pastiche, politics and punk. Full Review
Projected Figures
Jan 20, 2009
Rating: 3/5 -- Molonoti agono thematika, alla kai aisthitika se megalo bathmo, to ekstremistiko kinimatografiko homage toy Takashi Miike, poy ston aksona toy Yojimbo (1961) pantreyei ta spaghetti toy Leone me ta samurai toy Kurosawa, einai ena diabolemena apolaystiko st Full Review
Movies for the Masses
Mar 22, 2009
Pastiche rides the high frontier in "Sukiyaki Western Django", a film that strips the "Kill Bill" model of genre spoof down just to referents, quotes, and iconography, leaving strewn along its path the wreckage a blunt critic might call "the point." Full Review
MUBI
Nov 17, 2017
Rating: 3/4 -- A stylish and fun genre throwback that honors the films of the past while crafting a rip-roaring new experience with a gritty and clever verve. Full Review
From the Front Row
Jul 6, 2019
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]his saga of rival treasure-hunting gangs makes EL TOPO look like HIGH NOON.
Total Film
Feb 1, 2009
Everything in "Sukiyaki Western Django" has been said before... Full Review
Gay City News
Mar 8, 2018
Rating: 2/4 -- Sukiyaki Western Django is Takashi Miike's frantic swirl of a spaghetti western, marrying eastern and western elements in what could be taken as either homage or parody -- or both. Full Review
Toronto Star
Sep 19, 2008

Product Description:

SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO is prolific Japanese cult director Takashi Miike's samurai tribute to the Spaghetti Western genre. With an irreverent style and an obvious knowledge of the oater canon, Miike sets out to celebrate the factory line artistry of films such as Sergio Leone's A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS and Sergio Carbucci's DJANGO, while fully embracing the dazzling, post-modern aesthetic of movies such as KILL BILL and DESPERADO. And while homage and cinematic genre mash-ups can both be high on genuine artistic vision, it's clear from the supremely stylized opening prologue--with its transparent set pieces, outrageous kill shots, and cameo from that anointer of cult films himself, Quentin Tarantino--that Miike is out to have fun above all.

The story follows a Man With No Name gunfighter brought to a small village in Nevada to protect the townspeople from two rival gangs at war over a treasure hidden in the nearby hills. Themes of honor, tradition, loyalty, and family give the film some dramatic weight, but SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO primarily works as a high-octane action flick, albeit one made by a director with style and smarts. The samurai sword lust, kung-fu bar brawls, and John Woo-style operatic gun play remain completely gripping regardless of plot. Yet though the basic story has been told by everyone from Dashiell Hammett to the Coen Brothers to Akira Kurosawa, it's one that has clearly worked its way into the pantheon of contemporary myth and makes for solid dramatic ground on which an entertaining spectacle can unfurl.

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  • Sales Rank: 114,266
  • UPC: 687797123275
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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