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Visitor Q

R Released Nov 26, 2002 1h 24m Comedy Drama List
64% Tomatometer 11 Reviews 72% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings
A stranger (Kazushi Watanabe) befriends a family comprising a sexually deviant father (Kenichi Endo), an abused mother (Shungiku Uchida), a bullied son and a daughter who prostitutes herself.

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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness The scandalous pinnacle of [Miike's] extreme cinema canon. Rated: A- May 13, 2005 Full Review Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Rated: 3/5 Jun 26, 2002 Full Review Michael Atkinson Village Voice If Herschell Gordon Lewis had adapted Eugene O'Neill, the result still wouldn't out-thicken the muck of Miike's anti-achievement. Jun 25, 2002 Full Review Sam Moore Vague Visages In Visitor Q, the title character is presented as less of a sexual figure, and a more as a kind of lodestar, someone around whom the dysfunctional can gravitate, in order for them to find something approaching peace. Jun 5, 2024 Full Review Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse a grotesque study of the human psyche, by a filmmaker who has transformed the rape of our aesthetics into his means of expression. Dec 1, 2019 Full Review Joe Bob Briggs United Press International This movie is sick, sicker and sickest. I loved it, of course. Rated: 4/4 Oct 24, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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william d Perhaps the most dysfunctional family ever put on film, Visitor Q reminds me of John Waters' work from the 70s. It's 84 minutes of pure weirdness and grossness, although it lacks Waters' wonderful sense of humor. If you're in the mood for something bizarre, however, this more than fits the bill. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Liam D This is Takashi Miike (Fudoh: The New Generation, Dead or Alive: Final) at his most WTF but it's amazing WTF Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/05/22 Full Review Audience Member Very challenging in many ways.....! I found it quite impressive and unique. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Joel C Following an extremely disfunctional family, who do anything from prostitution to necrophilia, the audience is in for a bit of a shock. Somehow it's decently made and believable thanks to the raw actors performances. I have no idea how someone writes a script like this, gets it funded for production and finds actors to bring it to life. So strange, but far from fantasy. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/20/21 Full Review Audience Member idk man... i heard good things about this film from other reviewers but this was NOT what i thought it was gonna be. i'm familiar with Mike from Audition, which i loved, but i've tried a few other films from Mike & i think it's just the 1 movie that i like, haha. the rest are just off-their-rocker-weird. what was the point of half of this movie? i get the story of a stranger coming in & helping a family be a family again, but it could've been done without 75% of those scenes. i think this was just a fetish film. it was weird & i feel a little gross. definitely do not recommend. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review lucca b Sometimes an outrageous black comedy, others an affectionate family drama, and others an extreme and brutal horror movie. It bends genres in an effective and perverted way, and it ultimately becomes a study on disfunctional families at its most sickening level. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A stranger (Kazushi Watanabe) befriends a family comprising a sexually deviant father (Kenichi Endo), an abused mother (Shungiku Uchida), a bullied son and a daughter who prostitutes herself.
Director
Takashi Miike
Producer
Susumu Nakajima, Reiko Arakawa, Seiichiro Kobayashi
Distributor
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co
Columbia, TriStar Pictures
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 26, 2002, Original
Release Date (DVD)
Jun 15, 2006
Runtime
1h 24m