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Sukiyaki Western Django
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MPAA 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)

GENRE(S):	Action \| Western
WRITTEN BY:	Takashi Miike Masa Nakamura
DIRECTED BY:	Takashi Miike
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: November 11, 2008 Theatrical: August 29, 2008
RUNNING TIME:	121 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	Japan

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.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The ideal viewer is a Miike fan...You know who you are.

Film Threat Mariko McDonald

While it is a glossy crowd pleaser, it still has a few typically off the wall, classic Miike touches.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Sam Adams

Loses some of its appeal once the novelty of Miike's conceptual shenanigans wears off.

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.

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.

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.

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Darkly funny (par for the course with Miike), visually stunning and full of references to other films.

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.

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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White

Director Takashi Miike's dish of sukiyaki spaghetti ala Sergio Corbucci is badly seasoned with scraps of reservoir dogs.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

A lightweight goof that feels a little dashed-off.

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.

The average user rating for this movie is 5.1 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
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[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.

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