Sukiyaki Western Django
Sukiyaki Western Django (Japan 2007 / Director: Takashi Miike)
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| THIS FILM IS NOT A WESTERN, IT IS LISTED BECAUSE AS A HOMAGE IT IS HEAVILY INSPIRED BY SWs AND WAS MARKETED IN SOME COUNTRIES AS SUCH |
- Runtime: 121 min (Japan), 98 min (International version)
- Release date: 15.9.2007
Also known as
Sukiyaki Uesutan Jango (Japan), Düello (Turkey)
Cast and crew
- Cast: Hideako Ito (The Gunslinger), Koichi Sato (Kiymon, leader of the Reds), Yusuke Iseya (Yoshitsune, leader of the Whites), Kaori Momoi (B.B. Bloody Benten Ruriko), Masanobu Ando (Yoichi), Takaaki Ishibashi (Benkei), Shon Ogori (Akira), Teruyuki Kagawa (Sheriff), Yoshino Kimura (The Temptress), Quentin Tarantino (Piringo)
- Screenplay: Takashi Miike, Masa Nakamura
- Cinematography: Togomishi Kurita
- Music: Koji Endo
- Costume design: Mishiko Kitamura
- Set design: Takahisa Taguchi
- Dialogue coach: Nadia Venesse
- Producers: Hirotsugu Yoshido, Toshinori Yamaguchi
Synopsis
Several hundred years after a bloody clan war, hostilities flare up again, and the Red Heike and the White Genji both occupy a part of a Japanese town, hoping to lay their hands on a hidden treasure. A mysterious gunslinger rides into town and is asked by a saloon madam to stay. She secretly is a gunslinger too, the famous B.B. Bloody Benten, trained by the legendary foreign gunslinger Piringo. Several people are killed before things are settled in a bloody shootout. Leone, Corbucci, Kurosawa, Raimi, Peckinpah, Tarantino : they're all referred to in this colourful macaroni-pizza-pasta-western-chambara by cult film maker Miike.
Comment
Sukiyaki Western Django is a bit of a mixed bag: set and costume design are tremendous, the action is fine, but the story-telling is not up to the scratch. Read a full review of the movie here.
--By: Scherpschutter
