Kenji Wrote:Oh, I can't wait for it until September! You know what?
Takashi Miike's western's action movie, Sukiyaki Western Django
Today I saw trailer and all casts are Japanese actors except for Quentin Tarantino! Can you believe the Japanese made western's movie? No? Well, then, check this trailer! Very weird but cool!
Sukiyaki Western Django-trailer
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Pal Kenji, I did check it out. Looks weird and cool indeed. But tell me--I never knew this--are Westerns popular in Japan? If so, going way back?
ImDeranged Wrote:I love old Spaghetti Westerns. There a few with a character named Django, he carries a coffin with him that has a machine gun inside it.
Auskar Wrote:Isn't Django the original midnight movie movie from the sixties? Is Sukiyaki Western Django like a comedic japanese remake?
Auskar Wrote:Added: I went to the site and I get the impression that the movie has (essentially) two titles. One is "Sukiyaki Western" and the other is "Django" (as you can tell from the song). It must be a takeoff on the original Django (which I've never seen, but heard a lot about).
Auskar Wrote:Added later" I viewed the YouTube trailer and the very last image is one of Quentin Tarentino.
ImDeranged Wrote:Thanks again Kenji, I just upgraded my system to a Blu Ray. I saw this on the shelf and made it the first new film I bought on Blu. Visually stunning. It didn't disappoint. I loved the mixing of genre styles. What Seijun Suzuki did to the gangster films of the 40's, Takashi Miike does to the westerns of the '60's. The music was sweet, a nice hybrid. I'll have to look for the soundtrack.
If anyone hasn't seen it or is on the fence about it. I'll warn you there is more style than substance. But some beautifully shot sequences and quirks that make it entertaining and worth the hour and a half to watch it.