Lurid, over-the-top, bizarre, outrageous, completely hilarious – and that’s just Quentin Tarantino’s performance in SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO. The rest of the movie is an endless buffet of eye-popping delights that are probably illegal in Canada and Minnesota, but will baste your brain in a sauce made of super-fun and microwave it on “High” for 105 minutes at this summer’s New York Asian Film Festival. Takashi Miike’s English-language spaghetti western is a remake of Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 classic, DJANGO, about a hard-bitten gun runner who wanders into a desert town with a gatling gun hidden in a coffin. A huge sensation when it was released (spawning over thirty unofficial sequels and remakes) here Takashi Miike teleports the story to 19th Century Japan and mixes it with liberal doses of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS and YOJIMBO, then adds generous helpings of female gunslingers, samurai cowboys and plants that grow babies.
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This is indeed a fun watch!
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