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- Director: Takashi Miike
- Genre: Adventure, Action, Comedy, Western, Thriller
- Studio: Sony Music Entertainment (Japan)
- Widescreen | Duration: 115 Mins
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Cult appeal is stamped all over Japanese film-maker Takashi Miike's eccentric homage to the spaghetti western. The familiar scenario sees a gun-slinging stranger (Hideaki Ito) arrive in a town controlled by two violent, rival gangs: the Heikes (reds) and the Genjis (whites). Nods to the films of Sergios Leone and Corbucci abound, not to mention a knowing reference to Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo - itself the template for A Fistful of Dollars. Miike's more interesting creative touches prevent it from descending into a straight genre piece, and a showdown between samurai sword and six-shooter seems wholly appropriate for such a cross-cultural mishmash. What's less convincing is the dialogue, an incongruously assembled series of western clichés, which is delivered in such heavily accented English that subtitling is a necessity. Of the cast, Kaori Momoi (an acclaimed actress in Japan) stands out as a granny with a violent secret, while sole credited "gaijin" (non-Japanese) performer Quentin Tarantino offers a predictably toe-curling cameo.
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