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Sukiyaki Western Django

2007

Takashi Miike

Hideaki Ito, Masanobu Ando, Koichi Sato, Kaori Momoi ...

6.0

1,541

Western. Action Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, Django... West drinks from East, East drinks from West and Takashi Miike, at this point in his career, raises his glass fearlessly to surprise us with another of his brilliant ideas: a spaghetti-western disguised as jidai-geki, with cardboard sets and shot in English (or something like it), where the sparkle of revolvers rivals that of the katanas. Quentin Tarantino, in a poncho, transports us to this ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A feast for genre fetishists, a loving and lurid pastiche of the spaghetti westerns that were themselves lurid pastiches of classic Hollywood cowboy pictures."	POS
United States	Grady Hendrix Slate	"Like an alcoholic reduced to drinking sterno, the more you drink, the more brain cells you fry, and the better it tastes."	POS
United States	Todd Gilchrist IGN	"A mash-up masterpiece (...) It's an embodiment of true, transcendent post-modernism (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Andrew Schenker Slant	"The film is passable (...) What we’re chiefly concerned with here, however, is Miike’s powers of cinematic invention, which are only intermittently displayed (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"Genre/Asian buffs prepared to ride shotgun for two hours will be rewarded with some classy action sequences and densely accoutred widescreen lensing that create a distinctive Miike universe"	POS
United States	Sean Gandert Paste Magazine	"The entire set is a mix of the [spaghetti western and the samurai film] and truly beautiful to behold. The same can be said for the action sequences"	POS

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