Sukiyaki Western Django

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Cast & Crew

Hideaki Ito
Gunman

Koichi Sato
Kiyomori

Yusuke Iseya
Yoshitsune

Masanobu Andô
Yoichi

Yoshino Kimura
Shizuka

Teruyuki Kagawa
Sheriff

Masato Sakai
Shigemori

Shun Oguri
Akira

Quentin Tarantino
Piringo

Kaori Momoi
Ruriko

Ruka Uchida
Heihachi

Takashi Miike
Director

Takashi Miike
Writer

Masa Nakamura
Writer

Hirotsugu Yoshida
Producer

Toshinori Yamaguchi
Producer

Toshiaki Nakazawa
Executive Producer

Nobuyuki Tohya
Executive Producer

Toyomichi Kurita
Cinematographer

Taiji Shimamura
Film Editor

Kôji Endô
Original Music

Takashi Sasaki
Production Design

Takahisa Taguchi
Art Director

Michiko Kitamura
Costume Designer

Toshiie Tomida
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Critic Reviews for Sukiyaki Western Django

Audience Reviews for Sukiyaki Western Django

• Sep 03, 2012

  An eccentric and often extremely entertaining flick from Mr. Miike. Quentin Tarantino's turn in the film is also a comedic highlight.
  

  Kristijonas F Super Reviewer
• Mar 02, 2012

  Jim Slotek (Jami Movies) put it quite well: 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. I enjoyed it overall. I found it excessive. Some of it was offensive. I'm glad I watched it on TV, so I could fast forward through some of the brutality. The visual style of the film is its strongest selling point, and like so much of Japanese cinema, it delivers repeatedly in this regard.
  Morris N Super Reviewer
• Feb 20, 2012

  I was excited to see this film, since (in Japan, anyway) it was promoted as Miike's first collaboration with writer Masa Nakamura since the softly philosophical The Bird People in China. Plus, what arthouse fan wouldn't be interested in seeing Miike's stab at a Western? Well, he certainly pays the proper respects to Leone, Corbucci, and Kurosawa, but this film read like a style exercise with clever references, and nothing more. Making the curious decision to cast Japanese actors to speak English renders every annunciation and inflection awkward and disengaging. It's almost as if Miike wanted to keep the audience at bay, and in turn, his characters two-dimensional. Sure, there are some terrific shots and the production design is gorgeous, but unfortunately this is just another annoying "postmodern/revisionist" film that isn't meant to be engaged with, but is meant to be watched with a smug and hip ironic detachment. It's a film that is championed by "film people" who look around and say "Aren't I cool for laughing at this?" No, you're not. You're what's wrong with the industry today. If this analysis appears to be too critical or negative, look at which famous director makes an eye-rolling cameo in the opening scene: the poster child for hip, self-referential cinema and the man who has single-handedly killed film art forever, Mr. Quentin Tarantino. Miike is better than this.
  Jonathan H Super Reviewer
• Jan 20, 2011

  Meant to be over the top and completely insane. It's also fun and entertaining. Just get past the engrish voice dubs and you'll be fine.
  

  Chris B Super Reviewer

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