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Sukiyaki Western Django(スキヤキ・ウエスタン ジャンゴ)
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Japan · 2007
Rated R · 2h 1m
Director Takashi Miike
Starring Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato, Yusuke Iseya, Kaori Momoi
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller, Western
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Genji and Heike clans face off in a poor mountain town with a buried treasure legend. When a nameless gunfighter comes into town, he is begged to join both gangs but chooses his own path instead. Dirty tricks, betrayal, desire, and love get jumbled together as the situation erupts into a showdown.
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What are critics saying?
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
More often there is a frantic, compulsive quality to the action. Fanboy intoxication with the idea of formal ingenuity too often stands in for the thing itself.
Once you get past the question of why someone would make a movie this artificial in the first place and move on to the answer (purely for the hell of it), Sukiyaki Western Django is a blood-drenched, dynamite, often hilarious and uniquely weird big-screen entertainment.
Basic joke wears off after five minutes, and many bystanders will start to head out of town. But genre/Asian buffs prepared to ride shotgun for two hours will be rewarded with some classy action sequences and densely accoutred widescreen lensing.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
A lightweight goof that feels a little dashed-off.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The ideal viewer is a Miike fan...You know who you are.
Darkly funny (par for the course with Miike), visually stunning and full of references to other films.
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