Sukiyaki Western Django

Although it has the deceptive appearance of one and it has been championed as such by many reviewers, Sukiyaki is not a spaghetti western love letter, at least not in the same league with a clear-cut homage like Alex De La... Full review

I'm not entirely sure I understood the plot of Sukiyaki Western Django, mainly because I couldn't understand the dialogue very well, but I still can say it's unlike anything I have ever seen. In a time when ridiculously unoriginal films are... Full review

When one thinks of the cowboy Western names like John Ford, Sam Peckinpah, Howard Hawks and John Huston might come to mind but Japanese new wave and cult director Miike Takashi would probably be the last person you would think of... Full review

If Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time is considered an ode to the American Western with all it's fundamental elements all packed neatly in an 3 and a half hour package of visual splendor than Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django is... Full review

Spoiler Note: as this movie is a remake, the spoiler here will not be a surprise to anyone who has seen Yojimbo or any of the earlier remakes. I saw Sukiyaki Western Django (SWD) opening night in Kobe. It wasn't really... Full review

You can always be guaranteed in a Takashi Miike movie of seeing things that you've never seen before. I just saw Sukiyaki Western Django at the Toronto Film Festival and it continues that tradition. This is Miike's take on the American... Full review

If you've seen "High Plains Drifter", "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" any other Leone films or "spaghetti westerns" you will appreciate this film. (I guess this is an "udon western"? Sorry, I had to throw that in there.) For... Full review

"SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO" is the ideal cure against western of any kind. It has it all - including even queer cowboys and Gatling machine gun (hello, "3:10 to Yuma"!). And much more than that: war of White and Red Roses, Gollum... Full review

All the pieces are there for a good time if Miike had opted to make a straight western, and "Sukiyaki Western Django" can be enjoyed as one, just as the spaghetti westerns could. Kaori Momoi sometimes steals the show as Ruriko, one of those "characters with a secret" that feels convincingly more natural - and far cooler - when it comes out. ... Full Review

Not a moment of the film is wasted. For some reason, Miike has all his actors speak English even though its painfully obvious that none of the actors are native speakers. ... Full Review

The animation is on par with much of the most popular anime, but the story is just pathetic. The final two shorts, A Detective Story and Matriculated A Detective Story Aeon Flux, is a lush visual adventure from Peter Chung. ... Full Review

And, occasionally, it even offers some lovely scenes that are downright poetic. Its a time-honored trick thats been used by any director looking to get some cheap sympathy: Insert a cute, precocious child. ... Full Review

We're well into the third hour of the film before any sense of closure is reached -- or much sense is made out of all of this. The problem with the film is that its two greatest components are in relatively short supply. ... Full Review

Kaori Momoi has gone Western.The Japanese actress has had a successful career in Japanese films throughout the years, but her presence has been seen in some American studio films like Memoirs of a Geisha . ... Full Article

The good news about Sukiyaki Western Django is that Quentin Tarantino appears only in the prologue and a short bit toward the end.The bad news is that, even without his physical presence, we are never quite rid of him. ... Full Article

In the world of pulp movies, where horror, westerns and Asian exploitation borrow and blend with each other, there's a point where the cross-genre mishmash begins to feel like gobbledegook. ... Full Article

Theres just something about Ferrari-red blood splattering on the face of a woman holding a corpse being shot at as a child looks on that can only be enjoyed on film. ... Full Article

Take one renegade Japanese director, set him to work on a Spaghetti Western, add a cameo by a talkative American filmmaker, and what do you get? ... Full Article