Sukiyaki Western Django

Maverick Japanese director Takashi Miike re-teams with longtime writing partner Masa Nakamura (Andromedia, The Bird People of China) for this Western inspired by Sergio Corbucci's violent 1966 classic Django. It's been hundreds of years since the Battle of Dannoura, yet the Genji and Heiki clans are ...more

With his hat lowered and boots dusty, a lone drifter moseys through the dry brush of a Nevada town. Hand on his gun, he eyes down an unruly posse of hoodlums. The wind blows, shots ring out, and the violence begins. This may sound like a traditional Western, but for visionary (and hallucinatory) Japanese director Takashi Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django, the similarities to the age-old genre end here. Instead, Miike’s Western includes a cadre of Japanese actors, a hybridized Asian/American ...more