Review of Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) by Michael L — 27 Feb 2011

The meaning of life is shit happens huh? Well I don't want to run from shit anymore.

Takeshi Miike directs a mental, genre busting, film tribute film - one of the wonderful surreal movies that doesn't pretend it's not a film. In pigeon English, Japanese characters in a man-with-no-name Wild East revenge shoot out, faithful to the spaghetti westerns, horror (Argenta's redder than red blood splatters all over the celluloid) and HK action movies (impossible not to love the jumping onto a horse who responds to a whistle) it is greater than the sum of it's influences with a cool, beautiful cast, hyper-colour cinematography and a film lover's sense of humour. Bit knowing but would't work if it wasn't. A great film of a time that never was.