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nikkuchan

nikkuchan

I wanted to recommend a very odd film if anybody can find it (to my knowledge it hasn’t been released outside of Japan). It is called “Sukiyaki Western Django.” It was directed by Takashi Miike, arguable Japan’s most surreal and grotesque director at the moment. Anyway, he’s good friends with Quentin Tarentino, and apparently after a conversation about the differences and similarities between the old west and ancient Japan, he decided to make this extraordinarily bizarre samurai-cowboy amalgamation. Imagine a dusty old western town with pagodas and Japanese style houses, and samurais tote six shooters and everyone speak bad Japanese English. That’s right, the movie is done entirely in English, and nobody is a fluent speaker (which adds to the bizarreness to it I guess), except for Tarentino (He’s in the film).

Anyway, it’s violent, sick, and totally bizarre. Check it out if you can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiyaki_Western:_Django
 
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Fnord5

Fnord5

I picked it up a few weeks ago.
Only for the fact that it was a Takashi Miike film. I love his work, almost as much as Ryuhei Kitamura's.

Definitely an odd one, but mild compared to his other stuff.

Oh, I got it at Best Buy, definitely released here in the States.
 
ClubmanRob

ClubmanRob

Anybody see Sonatine? That was my favorite of his. It wasn't as surreal as the Django films, and it was easier (ie, more "western") to digest.
 
TimmyBoston

TimmyBoston

nikkuchan said:
I wanted to recommend a very odd film if anybody can find it (to my knowledge it hasn’t been released outside of Japan). It is called “Sukiyaki Western Django.” It was directed by Takashi Miike, arguable Japan’s most surreal and grotesque director at the moment. Anyway, he’s good friends with Quentin Tarentino, and apparently after a conversation about the differences and similarities between the old west and ancient Japan, he decided to make this extraordinarily bizarre samurai-cowboy amalgamation. Imagine a dusty old western town with pagodas and Japanese style houses, and samurais tote six shooters and everyone speak bad Japanese English. That’s right, the movie is done entirely in English, and nobody is a fluent speaker (which adds to the bizarreness to it I guess), except for Tarentino (He’s in the film).

Anyway, it’s violent, sick, and totally bizarre. Check it out if you can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiyaki_Western:_Django
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I suppose the violent aspect speaks for itself. But how is it sick and bizarre?
 
The Nid Hog

The Nid Hog

I watched Django the other day. Like most of Miike's work, it's wildly inconsistent, but there is enough genius there to keep me interested. In fact, the haphazard style of his films is what I really appreciate. Any other director would be surrounded by helpers and producers who even out the final project, maybe even removing what they see as the problematic parts. Not with Miike. It's like the film jumps right out of his head onto the screen.

[Stop me if you've heard this already] I was in Tokyo a couple of years ago and went to a little bar that I like in Kabukicho. It's just a hole in the wall on a narrow street in a rabbit warren of bars. You have to go up a rickety flight of stairs to get to it, and when you get inside, there are only two tables and the bar itself. It probably seats ten or twelve people, including the bartender/owner. She's an amazing movie buff, and I always stop in to find out about what she's interested in. Anyway, she told me that I just missed Miike and Tarantino, who stopped in for a drink after working on a film--which turned out to be Django. And, in fact, Tarantino's bottle (with his name written on it in magic marker) was still sitting on the table.
 
C

crocto

sounds like its the japanese version of a spaghetti western. there have been movies where the violence was so real people thought they were snuff films. like when charlie sheen thought he was watching a snuff film and called the FBI or when they hauled that italian director into court for cannibal holocaust.
 
ClubmanRob

ClubmanRob

crocto said:
sounds like its the japanese version of a spaghetti western. there have been movies where the violence was so real people thought they were snuff films. like when charlie sheen thought he was watching a snuff film and called the FBI or when they hauled that italian director into court for cannibal holocaust.
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I thought that was pretty funny. (The court deal, not the violence). I saw that at the drive-in when I was like five and it didn't fool me. Charlie Sheen lost some cool points with me over that. Now he's on 2 and 1/2 Men, and I think that's a little too harsh a punishment. :biggrin:
 
marvin100

marvin100

ClubmanRob said:
I thought that was pretty funny. (The court deal, not the violence). I saw that at the drive-in when I was like five and it didn't fool me. Charlie Sheen lost some cool points with me over that. Now he's on 2 and 1/2 Men, and I think that's a little too harsh a punishment. :biggrin:
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You, sir, are a sensible man.
 
dpm802

dpm802

ClubmanRob said:
I thought that was pretty funny. (The court deal, not the violence). I saw that at the drive-in when I was like five and it didn't fool me. Charlie Sheen lost some cool points with me over that. Now he's on 2 and 1/2 Men, and I think that's a little too harsh a punishment. :biggrin:
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Jon Cryer used to be one of my favorite actors. Now, he and Charlie Sheen have been reduced to supporting roles ... it should be pretty obvious that Jake (Angus T. Jones) and Berta (Conchita Farrell) get all the best lines.
 
kwk285

kwk285

From the title of the thread, the first movie that came to mind was "Lucky Stiff". It is a story about of family of Cannibals in the Tenessee mountains that go to a ski resort to find their Thanksgiving Dinner.:biggrin:
 
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slcsteve

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Legion

Legion

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marvin100 said:
Miike's Audition is one of the most disturbed/disturbing movies I've ever seen.
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Nobodies mentioned Miike's Ichi The Killer. I own pretty much all his films and that one is my favorite. It might still be banned or heavily cut in a lot of countries, though. He doesn't pull any punches but it's great fun (if you like that sort of thing.)
 
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