is the film where the actors are purposely dubbed? if so, i thought it was horrible.
I watched this film aroud the same time I watched Kwaidan by Kobayashi and I loved it.
If you have seen both films you will know why.
PS
I love the part where they guy tries to stop the sword.
they weren’t dubbed, they were actually speaking english.
I love the movie. Probably my favorite of Miike, and I liked a lot of his films (Audition and Ichi The Killer are near masterpieces). The japanese actors speaking broken english was definitely an aesthetic choice, done on purpose. It adds to what he was trying to do. It fits the style and overall mood. Didn’t bother me, really… But I’m used to watching movies spoken in english with subtitles. I didn’t like everything I’ve seen from Miike, but he is certainly one of the most interesting filmmakers working today in my opinion. He’s so prolific and shoots from the hip, so it’s obvious that some of his experiments aren’t going to work, but I wouldn’t take him any other way. When he hits the target, it’s a clear bullseye. The only bit I don’t like and thought was unnecessary excess in Sukiyaki Western Django was the animated interlude narrating Bloody Benten’s origin. Could have done without it. Other than that, I love all of it right down to the japanese version of the Django theme song. I just wish all the gun shot sound fx throughout the movie were those very distinct ones found on old spaghetti westerns. Instead, only Tarantino’s gun makes those sound fx, but I get what he was doing there.
forgive me, but I have seen both films and I don’t see what you’re getting at? Perhaps I just don’t remember something specific you’re reffering to. Could you clarify? But I did love that head chopping part too… I loved when the gattling gun fired and the screen shook… My favorite part though is in the beggining when Tarentino shoots a guy and his blood splatters all over the obviously fake studio backdrop…classic.
Hidden,
Do you remember the part with Haochi the Earless?
Do you remember the two clans that fought during that war?
Hint
White VS Red
Ahhh, didn’t think of that. I was really racking my brain over that. haha. thank you.
No problem man, welvome to THE AUTEURS.
Why thank you.
You just reminded me of how much I love Kwaidan… Thank you.
Not the best of his, and wether it’s meant or not the acting is just bad, but I liked it.
Not the best of his, and wether it’s meant or not the acting is just bad, but I liked it.
I downloaded this last year by mistake (I was after the original Django film, as I couldn’t find it anywhere) pressed play and turned it off in a couple of minutes, looked a piece of trash to me. I have been given Happiness of the Katakuris on dvd too which I haven’t gotten around to watching – Mikke doesn’t really sound like my Cup of tea to be honest.
I actually don’t care for Sukiyaki Western Django quite so much as other Miike bits but it certainly isn’t his worst and I definitely find it entertaining. I convinced my boss, actually, to buy it when I found it for 39 dirhams at the Carrefour the other day. I doubt he’ll like it but at least I’ll get him to watch something new, and then afterward I might grab it off of him and make it my own anyway. Miike rules.
One thing Miike is nice for is that when all else fails and you don’t know what to rent, there’s a high probability that he has a new movie out on DVD that you can grab a quick popcorn night out of. I agree that the animated interlude wasn’t really all that great but I think with Tarantino involved a large part of Sukiyaki Western Django was essentially doing the same thing for Westerns that Tarantino did for vengeance martial arts flix in Kill Bill. At any rate their collaboration is indicative of that same contemporary pastiche filmmakers from around the world are getting into, and whereas I’m sad that Tarantino is the leading personality behind it (because of his personality), I’m happy that it gives people like Miike even more room to practically vomit pop culture onto a canvas and turn it into (slightly abject) art.
That is why, yes, the blood spraying on the backdrop is both the most significant and brilliant part of this whole movie, because it basically is the entire movie defined in a single shot.
—PolarisDiB
Hidden Behind the Screen
I’m normally not really a fan of Takeshi Miike. As of recently the only film of his I liked enough to own was Deadly Outlaw Rekka (which I’m a huge fan of) but other than that I thought his films were not really to my tastes.
However, I recently watched Sukiyaki Western Django and thought it was fantastic! The acting on some levels was a little poor as the actors didn’t even understand what they were saying but I suppose that’s understandable and even adds to it’s “so ridiculous it’s fun” factor.
Anyone else feel the same?
And by the way, I watched the making of featurette on the disc, and it really made me appreciate the film even more. They worked so hard to make that film work and didn’t settle for anything less than what Miike found “perfect”.