Sukiyaki Western Django is a singular work of art that both celebrates those disjointed parts and synthesizes them into a strangely cohesive %u2013 and more amazingly, unique whole.
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11/20/08
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Sukiyaki Western Django (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 26
Rotten:19
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Consensus: Inventive and off-kilter, the newest feast from J-Horror director Takashi Miike is super-sensory, self-referential and somewhat excessive.
Theatrical Release: Aug 29, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: 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... [More]
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Although something of a confusing and befuddling mess, Miike's foray into the Western genre, Sukiyaki Western Django is another showcase for his playful and often gory style.
11/12/08
...everything that was supposed to enliven the picture perfect images just seemed to drag them down with lame dialogue and clichéd action.
11/12/08
... for all its virtues, Sukiyaki Western Django is a one-gimmick film that eventually wears out its welcome.
11/12/08
Clever costuming and production design set off an intriguingly off-kilter vision of a tiny western town in a "Nevada" out in the Japanese desert.
11/10/08
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10/10/08
As much of a hoot as the movie is, it feels like just an exercise well before it ends.
10/03/08
Director Takashi Miike's dish of sukiyaki spaghetti ala Sergio Corbucci is badly seasoned with scraps of reservoir dogs.
10/02/08
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.
09/19/08
Top Critic The chaotic elements never really coalesce into a sensible whole beyond the idea that this is what, at that moment, Miike thought would be really cool...the film is cluttered and not very fun.
09/18/08
Japanese spaghetti Western that's both faithful to its Italian antecedents and way out on its own wacky wavelength.
09/12/08
A remarkably inventive yet referential Eastern Western, full of action, cinematic references, pop-cowboy lingo, bloody haute costuming, two warring clans and one carnage-inducing Gatling gun.
09/12/08
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 passé endeavor -- and Sergio Corbucci's Django in particular.
09/12/08
Top Critic The flick's a lot of sound and fury and dynamite that signifies nothing while paying tribute to everything
09/12/08
You haven't lived until you've heard a Japanese actor use the phrase 'Whistling Dixie' in a sentence
09/11/08
...one of those preening film-geek "tributes" to an old B-movie with which most people are, shall we say, not intimately familiar.
09/05/08
More action, gun fights and swords fail to make this a better film than the spaghetti westerns that came before. Tarantino is great but his small part is too little to lift this Eastern oater much above average.
09/03/08
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