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Directed By
Takashi Miike
Written By:
Takashi Miike, Masa Nakamura
Cast:
Hideaki Ito, Masanobu Ando, Koichi Sato, Kaori Momoi, Renji Ishibashi, Takaaki Ishibashi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Shun Oguri, Masato Sakai, Yoji Tanaka, Quentin Tarantino, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura, Toshiyuki Nishida, Hideaki Sato, Christian Storms
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Sukiyaki Western Django (2008)
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Movie Review by Zara 
November 13th, 2008
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Oh what a mess this is. But what a lovely, lovely mess. That's pretty much the only point in SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO. The cinematography and set direction and art direction is breathtaking at times. Stark images represented by the colours of red and white, as a representation of two sides to the coin of evil.
However, no amount of visual beauty can save a story that isn't a whole one. It borrows heavily from Quentin Tarantino's abstract story line direction but even if you were to put the pieces into the slots where they chronologically belonged, there isn't much of a story to tell here. And what there is of a story is old, battered and bruised. Love, death, good and evil, vengeance that begets the rebirth of tolerance. Been there, done that.
It's also unnerving that the characters are all Asian, living within the state of Nevada, speaking in perfect (if accented) English and acting like the men within the spaghetti Westerns which shot Clint Eastwood to fame. When the leader of the Reds insists that his followers refer to him by the name of Henry (after his love of Shakespeare's Henry VI), you start to just shake your head and not give much credence to the rest of the film.
But I watched it, as many I'm sure will, because it had the QT stamp of approval. This is by far not a bad movie, just a beautifully executed visual romp that is painted over the old, rotted boards of standard Western storytelling. Maybe if you're more of a fan of Westerns you can appreciate it more than I did, but eh. Who knows?
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