Sukiyaki Western Django - 2007

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Sukiyaki Western Django - 2007

One line review:Miike pulls the inverse 'Kill Bill' - a color saturated soy sauce spaghetti western. Highly Recommended.


If you are an extreme film fan, the name Takashi Miike should be enough for you to shell out to see this. His controversial, prolific and eclectic film

career covers the bases from the sadistic romance horror of 'Audition' (1999), the manga hyper violence of 'Ichi the Killer' (2001) through to the pop children's joy of 'The Great Yokai War' (2005).

So what we have here is the inverse 'Kill Bill'. 'Kill Bill' = Iconoclastic western film auteur Tarantino mashes up Eastern martial arts influences in a style overloaded revenge movie staring western actors. 'Sukiyaki Western Django' = Iconoclastic eastern film auteur Miike mashes up European spaghetti western influences in a style overloaded revenge movie staring eastern actors. Oh yeah, he has Tarantino acting in a key role, and all the Asian actors speak in phonetic English....

The big stepping off point influencing this movie is meant to be the original 'Django' (1966), considered to be a classic of the spaghetti western genre, and supposedly the origin of the ear cutting scene in 'Reservoir Dogs'. I have to admit to having never seen it, but in the best of Euro exploitation movie tradition there have been dozens of unsanctioned sequels and outright rip offs, which I have seen. Also the likes of Sergio Leone's 'A Fistful of Dollars' and 'Once Upon A Time In The West' feature as obvious influences. Take those influences, add a heap of Samurai sword play, stunning saturated colors plus gun flinging action and you have taste of where this is going.

This is something fun and spectacular and highly likely unlike anything you have seen before. How often can you say that?

Miike fans, will already be queuing to see this, Tarantino fans should be queuing to see this and I highly recommend any action movie fans with adventurous tastes go and see this.

Here is a trailer, with a very tamed down look at the style this movie contains:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYUecko6Vd0