Sukiyaki Western Django

R

Released Aug 29, 2008

2h 0m

Action

Western

List

56%

55 Reviews

Tomatometer

57%

10,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

Ever since the Genpei War a few centuries before, two clans have been fighting over a hidden treasure. The white-clothed Genji, led by Yoshitsune (Yusuke Iseya), refuse to allow the opposing clan, the Kiyomori warriors -- who wear red and are led by Kiyomori (Koichi Sato) -- to keep all the wealth for themselves. When a stranger comes to town, he says he'll join whichever clan offers him more money. But the stranger has a hidden agenda: He is out to seek revenge on behalf of a prostitute.

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Critics Consensus

Inventive and off-kilter, the newest feast from J-Horror director Takashi Miike is super-sensory, self-referential and somewhat excessive.

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David Fear

Time Out

Rated: 2/5

Nov 18, 2011

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Hank Sartin

Time Out

Rated: 3/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Leo Goldsmith

indieWire

Ultimately not quite as clever as it thinks it is. Even the action sequences are more about Foley than choreography, and so the film largely rests on the oddity of its mix of styles and its parade of genre in-jokes

Aug 8, 2009

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

A stylish and fun genre throwback that honors the films of the past while crafting a rip-roaring new experience with a gritty and clever verve.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 7, 2019

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Steve Erickson

Gay City News

Everything in "Sukiyaki Western Django" has been said before...

Mar 8, 2018

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Daniel Kasman

MUBI

Pastiche rides the high frontier in "Sukiyaki Western Django", a film that strips the "Kill Bill" model of genre spoof down just to referents, quotes, and iconography, leaving strewn along its path the wreckage a blunt critic might call "the point."

Nov 17, 2017

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Audience Member

It's a strange choice and a bit jarring to have the characters speak engrish, but I kind of get the creative choice to do it. Regardless, this is one of the best entries in the long line of Django films. It's a self-referential, super stylistic, fun meeting of East vs West. All the homages get me giddy as a schoolboy. After the original this is my go-to.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/02/20

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Audience Member

I have no idea what the point of this movie was. Everything is so off kilter with this movie, which is clearly what the director had in mind for this project. However, at some point the "creativeness" can go overboard and the movie loses all cohesion and focus. The multiple juxtapositions involving the setting, characters and plot simply turned this movie into a cauldron of confusion, whose only coherence came in the gore. With that being all that is left, this movie mad no sense.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Audience Member

Difficultly hearing the voices of the characters with the heavy accents but it really doesn't matter as this is a visually stunning film.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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dustin d

Takashi Miike's mix of gore and quirky humor was appreciated in Ichi the Killer, but comes off as a miscalculation here. He is making a tribute/parody to spaghetti westerns, particularly Django/A Fistful of Dollars, with a lot of references and in-jokes to fans of the genre, but it comes off as self-gratifying and excessive, and seems more like an exercise than a film for general audiences. Miike had something of a Tarantino flair, and Quentin Tarantino makes a cameo in this movie. Tarantino's Django would be a much better film, and more fitting send-up of the Italian predecessors. There are too many characters in Sukiyaki Western Django for any one to shine (although, Masanobu Ando and Kaori Momoi had their moments). For me, the main reason this film didn't work is the strange decision to have all the Japanese actors stumble over English dialogue. This, along with the humor that seems to be trying too hard, makes Django hard to get invested in and to sit through its 98-minute runtime.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Its a dumb yet really enjoyable guilty pleasure film. Its ridiculous but quite inventive in its action and cinematography.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Audience Member

Insanity, completely bonkers, and full of pulpy goodness

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Takashi Miike

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Hideaki Ito

Gunman

Koichi Sato

Kiyomori

Yusuke Iseya

Yoshitsune

Masanobu Andô

Yoichi

Yoshino Kimura

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Synopsis

Ever since the Genpei War a few centuries before, two clans have been fighting over a hidden treasure. The white-clothed Genji, led by Yoshitsune (Yusuke Iseya), refuse to allow the opposing clan, the Kiyomori warriors -- who wear red and are led by Kiyomori (Koichi Sato) -- to keep all the wealth for themselves. When a stranger comes to town, he says he'll join whichever clan offers him more money. But the stranger has a hidden agenda: He is out to seek revenge on behalf of a prostitute.

Director: Takashi Miike
Producer: Toshiaki Nakazawa, Nobuyuki Tohya
Screenwriter: Takashi Miike, Masa Nakamura
Distributor: First Look
Production Co: A-Team, Dentsu
Rating: R (Strong Violence|Rape)
Genre: Action, Western
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 29, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 22, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $48.0K
Runtime: 2h 0m

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