Rotten
As much of a hoot as the movie is, it feels like just an exercise well before it ends.
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times
Sukiyaki Western Django
2007 · 2h 1m · R
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller, Western
Directed by
Takashi Miike
Overview
Several hundred years after the Battle of Dannoura, the Genji and Heike clans face off again in a poor mountain town with a buried treasure legend. A revolver-wielding stranger, a lone gunman, burdened with emotional scars and blessed with incredible skill, drifts into town and crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services are valuable to either side, he offers himself to the clan who will offer up the largest share of the wealth. Yoshitsune commands his Genji gang in white while Kiyomori leads his Heike gang in red. Expectations collide as the key players wonder which gang the gunman will join. Dirty tricks, betrayal, desire and finally, love, get jumbled together, as the situation erupts into a showdown.
Director and cast
- Takashi Miike Director
- Hideaki Ito as Gunman
- Masanobu Ando as Yoichi
- Koichi Sato as Taira no Kiyomori
- Kaori Momoi as Ruriko
- Yūsuke Iseya as Minamoto no Yoshitsune
- Teruyuki Kagawa as Sheriff
- Renji Ishibashi as Benkei
- Takaaki Ishibashi as Village Mayor
- Yoshino Kimura as Shizuka
- Quentin Jerome Presher Brosman Tarantino as Ringo
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
56%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Rotten
Cult director Takashi Miike's English-language Sukiyaki Western Django has style to burn but self-destructs like a wildfire as it attempts to spoof spaghetti westerns -- a passe endeavor -- and Sergio Corbucci's Django in particular.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
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.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Fresh
It is, of course, a must for Miike's legions of fans, of which I am one. It also should serve as a way for mainstream audiences to become acquainted with Miike.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
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