Sukiyaki Western Django [Steelbook] (Bloody Benton Cover) R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 11, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Alchemy / Millennium
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Hideaki Itô, Yûsuke Iseya, Kôichi Satô & Quentin Tarantino | |
Performer: | Masanobu Andô, Takaaki Ishibashi, Yoshino Kimura, Teruyuki Kagawa & Kaori Momoi | |
Directed by | Takashi Miike | |
Screenwriting by | Masaru Nakamura & Takashi Miike | |
Composition by | Kôji Endô | |
Produced by | Hirotsugu Yoshida & Toshinori Yamaguchi | |
Director of Photography: | Toyomichi Kurita |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]his recounts an archetypal samurai-feud story as a hallucinatory tribute to Italian Westerns....It's a fever-dream of a film...
Empire
Rating: B- --
The flick's a lot of sound and fury and dynamite that signifies nothing while paying tribute to everything
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I.E. Weekly
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.
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Toronto Star
Rating: C --
The gimmicky gore fest quickly fell out of favor with me.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Miike's 'wild east' take on the western genre is a colourfully violent stand-off of pastiche, politics and punk.
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Projected Figures
Rating: 2/4 --
The lurid sets and savage and startling action will undoubtedly have cult appeal as the conventions of physics, history and genre are all ignored in this overblown fever dream.
Globe and Mail
Ultimately not quite as clever as it thinks it is. Even the action sequences are more about Foley than choreography, and so the film largely rests on the oddity of its mix of styles and its parade of genre in-jokes
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indieWire
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.
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: 123,005
- UPC: 687797123220
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