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Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)

Western | 121 minutes / 98 minutes (international cut version)
2,97 243 votes

Genre: Western / Action

Duration: 121 minuten / 98 minuten (international cut version)

Alternative title: スキヤキ・ウエスタン ジャンゴ

Country: Japan

Directed by: Takashi Miike

Stars: Hideaki Ito, Masanobu Ando and Koichi Sato

IMDb score: 6,1 (16.232)

Releasedate: 15 September 2007

Sukiyaki Western Django plot

Set during the "Genpai Wars" in the late 12th century, the Minamoto and Taira gangs engage in a bloody confrontation in the town of Yuda, while a deadly gunfighter protects the people.

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sinterklaas

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What a wonderful film Takashi Miike puts here again. With a very weird, yet working mix of Spaghetti Western, Samurai's and an obvious Japanese landscape called "Nevada". Oh yeah, and Tarantino is in too.

This film just has everything going for it again and also seems to be some kind of parody. Everyone speaks English with a Japanese accent. And for the rest, it's just shooting shooting from start to finish and the blood is splashing around again. The plays in between with Tarantino are also great (even when Tarantino plays the old guy and those plays were actually moments far in the past) And instead of Indians, the cowboys do battle it out against the Samurais, and Kurosawa and Leone become obvious (with a pinch absurdity) thrown into the blender. It also seems as if Miike deliberately wanted to make a failed parody that really makes no sense and is as absurd as the plague. Only Mike can do that.

As far as I'm concerned, I really enjoyed this wonderful over the top film. Miike never ceases to surprise you.

4.5*

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RuudC

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Yet another Yojinbo spin-off. I've seen the story often enough, but Takashi Miike's approach really appeals to me. I think it is a fairly brilliant choice to use mainly Japanese actors who have not had much to say about the English language. The result is unbelievably funny. A gang leader who has read a few pages of Shakespeare and wants to be called Henry because of that is really ridiculous, but it did make me roll off the couch laughing. I like such edits, but for a change it would have been much better if Miike had ridiculed a different story (although I liked the references to Django). The action is also nicely exaggerated and visually it certainly has its moments. For me the pros and cons are clear. The result could have been better.

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Onderhond

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Nice review.

I will never become a western fan, in the end I especially like this film for the points where it differs from the classic western. But all in all, it is also a film that simply belongs within the genre. But then on his Miike's.

The English dialogue remains painful, it clearly gets in the way of the actors. But that's the only downside of this movie. A funny cast (a mix of cowboys and Yakuza), visually very neat, pleasantly exaggerated and light-hearted in tone. Also just seen the 120 minute version, it's not that it's impossible to cut into that version, but nowhere did it feel slow or boring, so no idea why they shortened it internationally.

Maybe I'm missing some references because I've seen very few westerns (and the ones I've seen don't stick with me anyway). That's nice for the enthusiast, although I doubt whether they are very pleased with Miike's spielerei. Anyway, I had a lot of fun with it.

4.0* and a extended review

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