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Visitor Q (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 9

Fresh: 5

Rotten:4

Average Rating: 6.1/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Jun 28, 2002 Limited

Synopsis: An assailant (Watanabe Kazushi) cracks Kiyoshi (Kenichi Endo) on the head with a rock. The victim is the patriarch of a depraved family and this act of violence mysteriously enables the stranger to... An assailant (Watanabe Kazushi) cracks Kiyoshi (Kenichi Endo) on the head with a rock. The victim is the patriarch of a depraved family and this act of violence mysteriously enables the stranger to enter their unhappy home. Dysfunctional does not even begin to describe this family unit which consists of a prostitute daughter (Fujiko) who turns incestuous tricks, a son (Jun Moto) who viciously beats a junky mother (Shungiku Uchida) and the father who videotapes all the unsavory behavior in hopes of revitalizing his television production career with a reality program he'd like to call True Bullying. Their visitor tightens the family bonds through truly unusual methods as he videotapes a murder and guides Keiko to excessively lactating an apparently healing breast milk. Takashi Miike's (AUDITION) familial portrait captures a disturbed household that reaches surreal levels of depravity. The unsettling film, shot on digital video, is laced with dark humor and haunting, shocking imagery. The film builds to a final image that can be seen as both transcendent and immoral. [More]

Starring: Kenichi Endo, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Shoko Nakahara

Starring: Kenichi Endo, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Shoko Nakahara, Fukiko, Jun Muto, Ikko Suzuki

Director: Takashi Miike

Director: Takashi Miike
Producer: Susumu Nakajima, Seiichiro Kobayashi, Reiko Arakawa
Composer: Koji Endo

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Derek Elley
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It follows along the lines of Pasolini's more cerebral "Teorema" of the seduction of a dysfunctional family by a mysterious stranger.

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06/01/06
Dennis Schwartz
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11/05/05
Emanuel Levy
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The scandalous pinnacle of [Miike's] extreme cinema canon.

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05/13/05
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

1/3 dark (really dark) comedy, 1/3 fetish pornography, and 1/3 just plain “Ewwwww!”

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08/07/04
Brian Mckay
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beneath all Miike's over-the-top absurdities lurk real feelings (inadequacy, alienation, repressed sexuality) that simmer away in most 'normal' families.

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06/26/02
Marc Savlov
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If Herschell Gordon Lewis had adapted Eugene O'Neill, the result still wouldn't out-thicken the muck of Miike's anti-achievement.

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06/25/02
Michael Atkinson
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