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Visitor Q

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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.

Critics Reviews

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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness 05/13/2005
A-
The scandalous pinnacle of [Miike's] extreme cinema canon. Go to Full Review
Michael Atkinson Village Voice 06/25/2002
If Herschell Gordon Lewis had adapted Eugene O'Neill, the result still wouldn't out-thicken the muck of Miike's anti-achievement. Go to Full Review
Sam Moore Vague Visages 06/05/2024
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. Go to Full Review
Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse 12/01/2019
a grotesque study of the human psyche, by a filmmaker who has transformed the rape of our aesthetics into his means of expression. Go to Full Review
Joe Bob Briggs United Press International 10/24/2016
4/4
This movie is sick, sicker and sickest. I loved it, of course. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 06/01/2006
C+
It follows along the lines of Pasolini's more cerebral "Teorema" of the seduction of a dysfunctional family by a mysterious stranger. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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Siriporn P Nov 6 Filthy but funny though. See more thiago s @Thiagostone Jun 4 Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas de terror são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom. See more william d @acsdoug 12/05/2022 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. See more 05/22/2021 Very challenging in many ways.....! I found it quite impressive and unique. See more @c0urtn3y 09/14/2020 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. See more lucca b 05/24/2020 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. See more 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