Sukiyaki Western Django (Steelbook Packaging)

Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Kaori Momoi, Koichi Sato, Quentin Tarantino, Takaaki Ishibashi, Teruyuki Kagawa
Studio: FIRST LOOK PICTURES
Category: DVD

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Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 7 reviews
Sales Rank: 18800

Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6

MPN: FLPD12324D
UPC: 687797123244
EAN: 0687797123244
ASIN: B001CIOCKS

Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: November 11, 2008
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Sukiyaki Western Django (Steelbook Packaging)

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1 out of 5 stars BAD CUT of an Awesome movie    December 24, 2008
John W. Godfrey IV (USA)
I don't know why, but this wonderful movie has been cut by about 20 MINUTES. Blasphemy! I don't know where to find a full version containing the original theatrical version with Region 1 coding, but this disc certainly isn't it.

In regards to the movie, it's a brilliant meditation on the reflexive nature of the Spaghetti Western genre as a back-and-forth between Japanese and American cinema replete with beautiful cinematography, clever action sequences, snappy dialog and constant meta-humor within the plot, characters, and sets. It is at all times vibrantly colorful and thoughtful in its execution, and I would rank it with "HERO" in terms of aesthetics and "KILL BILL Vol. 2" in terms of tone and action.

All of which is why I'm giving this particular package 1 out of 5. Not a single bit of it is a waste of time! Boo, butchers!


4 out of 5 stars The Spaghetti Western,A Dying Breed    December 18, 2008
R. Webb (u.s.a.)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Where else can you vision a motion picture like this ,the whole concept of asians acting out a spaghetti western, in which is the main objective anyway,spaghetti westerns and martial art films are basically similar with the same plots,scenery,music scores, and best of all, extremely violent, as in the original Italian production,the 1966, Django, with Franco Nero ,banned from several countries when the film was first released,so,Japanese director,Takashi Miike,makes an gallant attempt to continue the tradition of Django and almost succeeds, with the bloody violence,the fisful of dollars plot,and,the coffin loaded with a gatlin gun. The problem is there seems to be a vacant hole in the plot making the film hard to understand,although,more understandable the second time around. Another problem is the Japanese actors accents as they're speaking English making it very difficult to understand, and it seems Quentin Tarantino was basically used as a prop,or maybe to give this film an eccentric,weird atmosphere,because he's barely in it anyway,-one or two scenes. This Japanese film deserves at least four stars for the gallant attempt of this dying breed of this movie making genre. SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO,unforgettable title ,unforgettable western,with a well constructed steel cover and deleted scenes.(the best buy version includes two disc.}


2 out of 5 stars Arrrgggghhhh    December 9, 2008
John T. Bakos (Lincoln, California USA)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful

Talk about parodies of movies...

An endless stream of one liners/special effects/stunts parodying the spaghetti western and hong kong chinese Kung Fu movies...

Minimally entertaining.


2 out of 5 stars This film sounds much cooler than it acually is.    November 24, 2008
Jeffrey T. Goodall (AZ)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful

Sukiyaki Western Django is one of those films that tried too hard to be artsy for the sake of being artsy. It is incredibly slow paced and there is little to no character development. The stranger in the movie talks about a score he has to settle but nothing is really made clear on what the score is and why. I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino's films, but his acting is crap. Why on Earth he was even in this film is beyond me. It was just too cheesey. I was also hoping for a Japanese audio track because it awful having to hear heavy Japanese accents saying words like "reckon" and "y'all".

There was a bit of comic relief whenever the town sheriff was on screen, but his character was not enough to save this film. With lots of good action sequences, this movie had promise but ultimately failed to deliver. Anyone who gives this film 5 stars was probably just infatuated with the fact that this was something different and unique, but different and unique don't always make for a good film.


2 out of 5 stars Highly Disappointing and boring.    November 17, 2008
Martin (Tucson, AZ)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful

Where do I start with this. Well, Tarantinos awful acting cameos are always expected and often times add to a movie in a wierd way much like from dusk till dawn or reservoir dogs, he's the puff daddy of movies. However, his cameo appearances were completely alien in this movie and completely unnessesary in a film sooooo boring and pretentious in it's sad attempts to imitate asian cinemetography noir. By merging heavy asian influences to the typical western movie left for intruiging possibilities but....

I had high hopes for this movie and the trailer did a great job selling this movie as the best sequences were shown in the trailer. First of all, I thought this movie would be in japanese but it was in English in fact. This is great but the english is BAD. The actors had very thick accents which made understanding the movie extremely difficult especially with such a convoluted story line such as this. I eventually had to add subtitles to understand the english they were trying speak!

Having done this, it did not help in the way of understanding the story. The story revolves around two clans, Red and White who fight for power under the war of the roses mentality. A mysterious stranger comes into town and has to chose a side based on who pays the most. The problem is that there is no war of the roses as the red clan is basically ruled and picked on by the much more powerfull white clan. The town sherrif who is crazy and has split personality tries to recruit him for the red clan. The story becomes more conveluted with the introduction of a beautiful white clan woman who has a past. Her husband who was a red clan member, was killed by the red clan leader leaving their half red white son mute. She then let herself be violated by the white clan leader for revenge on the red clan. the son was taken care of is grandmother who turns out to be a fierce warrior later in the movie. Then some old shamen from the mountains is introduced later in the movie for the purposes of healing the hero. There are so many more unessesary characters introduced thorught the movie and each one has there own story which has nothing to do with main story. On and on and on.

There were about two decent action sequences and thats it! The rest is meaningless hard to understand dialogue. Instead of taking a cool idea added with great action sequences, the film try's to push an artsy back drop with western dialoge to put out a unique noir type movie. But it fails miserably. I had to force myself to finish the movie for this review. I felt it my duty to inform potential buyers. Thank god I rented this movie instead of buying it. If you are thinking of buying this movie without seeing it first... STOP! Rent it first before you buy, although I wouldn't even recommend renting it. The only reason this got two stars was because of the potential. Asian influence westerns have so many great posibilities but this was a sad attempt.