A Japanese Spaghetti Western? The NYT describes Sukiyaki Western Django as “Sergio Leone Meets Reservoir Dog in Japanese Pastiche.”
“Sukiyaki Western Django,” the latest offering from the protean and prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike, is a feast for genre fetishists, a loving and lurid pastiche of the spaghetti westerns that were themselves lurid pastiches of classic Hollywood cowboy pictures. It is fitting that the honorary master of ceremonies at this film-geek orgy is Quentin Tarantino, dean of the international film-geek fraternity, who elegantly disembowels a snake in the opening scene and who appears later to fill in some plot holes and speak in bizarrely accented English.
The film title itself alludes to the original Django, directed by the other Sergio, Sergio Corbucci (not Leone). Django spawned over 30 sequels, with only one being official.
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