Sukiyaki Western Django (Bloody Benton Cover) (Steelbook Packaging) R

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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 11, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Millennium

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 10,317
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]his recounts an archetypal samurai-feud story as a hallucinatory tribute to Italian Westerns....It's a fever-dream of a film...
Empire
Mar 1, 2009
Rating: 3/4 -- A stylish and fun genre throwback that honors the films of the past while crafting a rip-roaring new experience with a gritty and clever verve. Full Review
From the Front Row
Jul 6, 2019
Rating: 2.5/4 -- As much of a hoot as the movie is, it feels like just an exercise well before it ends. Full Review
Seattle Times
Oct 3, 2008
3 stars out of 5 -- [T]his saga of rival treasure-hunting gangs makes EL TOPO look like HIGH NOON.
Total Film
Feb 1, 2009
Rating: B- -- The flick's a lot of sound and fury and dynamite that signifies nothing while paying tribute to everything Full Review
I.E. Weekly
Sep 12, 2008
Rating: 2/4 -- The lurid sets and savage and startling action will undoubtedly have cult appeal as the conventions of physics, history and genre are all ignored in this overblown fever dream.
Globe and Mail
Sep 1, 2008
Rating: 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
Toronto Star
Sep 19, 2008

Product Description:

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, Miike sets out to celebrate the factory line artistry of films such as Sergio Leone's A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS and Sergio Carbucci's DJANGO, while fully embracing the dazzling, post-modern aesthetic of movies such as KILL BILL and DESPERADO. And while homage and cinematic genre mash-ups can both be high on genuine artistic vision, it's clear from the supremely stylized opening prologue--with its transparent set pieces, outrageous kill shots, and cameo from that anointer of cult films himself, Quentin Tarantino--that Miike is out to have fun above all.

The story follows a Man With No Name gunfighter brought to a small village in Nevada to protect the townspeople from two rival gangs at war over a treasure hidden in the nearby hills. Themes of honor, tradition, loyalty, and family give the film some dramatic weight, but SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO primarily works as a high-octane action flick, albeit one made by a director with style and smarts. The samurai sword lust, kung-fu bar brawls, and John Woo-style operatic gun play remain completely gripping regardless of plot. Yet though the basic story has been told by everyone from Dashiell Hammett to the Coen Brothers to Akira Kurosawa, it's one that has clearly worked its way into the pantheon of contemporary myth and makes for solid dramatic ground on which an entertaining spectacle can unfurl.

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  • Sales Rank: 120,667
  • UPC: 687797123275
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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