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Sukiyaki Western Django (2008)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:29
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Inventive and off-kilter, the newest feast from J-Horror director Takashi Miike is super-sensory, self-referential and somewhat excessive.
Theatrical Release:Aug 29, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: 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,... [More]
Starring: Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato, Yusuke Iseya, Quentin Tarantino
Director: Takashi Miike
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Reviews for Sukiyaki Western Django
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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 Full Review |
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Molonoti agono thematika, alla kai aisthitika se megalo bathmo, to ekstremistiko kinimatografiko homage toy Takashi Miike, poy ston aksona toy Yojimbo (1961) pantreyei ta spaghetti toy Leone me ta samurai toy Kurosawa, einai ena diabolemena apolaystiko st Full Review |
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Miike's 'wild east' take on the western genre is a colourfully violent stand-off of pastiche, politics and punk. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Sukiyaki Western Django is a far-east-meets-western that could have only sprung from the mind of Takashi Miike. Full Review |
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4.5/5 |
Sukiyaki Western Django is a singular work of art that both celebrates those disjointed parts and synthesizes them into a strangely cohesive %u2013 and more amazingly, unique whole. Full Review |
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Although something of a confusing and befuddling mess, Miike's foray into the Western genre, Sukiyaki Western Django is another showcase for his playful and often gory style. Full Review |
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5/10 |
...everything that was supposed to enliven the picture perfect images just seemed to drag them down with lame dialogue and clichéd action. Full Review |
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... for all its virtues, Sukiyaki Western Django is a one-gimmick film that eventually wears out its welcome. Full Review |
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B |
Clever costuming and production design set off an intriguingly off-kilter vision of a tiny western town in a "Nevada" out in the Japanese desert. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Miike knows how to film cartoonish violence with style, and the sillier the movie becomes in its mayhem, the harder it is to turn away from. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
As much of a hoot as the movie is, it feels like just an exercise well before it ends. Full Review |
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C |
Director Takashi Miike's dish of sukiyaki spaghetti ala Sergio Corbucci is badly seasoned with scraps of reservoir dogs. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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5/10 |
The chaotic elements never really coalesce into a sensible whole beyond the idea that this is what, at that moment, Miike thought would be really cool...the film is cluttered and not very fun. Full Review |
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Japanese spaghetti Western that's both faithful to its Italian antecedents and way out on its own wacky wavelength. Full Review |
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A- |
A remarkably inventive yet referential Eastern Western, full of action, cinematic references, pop-cowboy lingo, bloody haute costuming, two warring clans and one carnage-inducing Gatling gun. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Cult director Takashi Miike's English-language Sukiyaki Western Django has style to burn but self-destructs like a wildfire as it attempts to spoof spaghetti westerns -- a passé endeavor -- and Sergio Corbucci's Django in particular. Full Review |
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The flick's a lot of sound and fury and dynamite that signifies nothing while paying tribute to everything Full Review |
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