Synopsis
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Hideaki ItoGunman
- Koichi SatoKiyomori
- Yûsuke IseyaYoshitsune
- Kaori MomoiRuriko
- Teruyuki KagawaSheriff
- Takaaki IshibashiVillage Mayor
- Masanobu AndoYoichi
- Yoshino KimuraShizuka
- Masato SakaiShigemori
- Shun OguriAkira
Recommendations
- 80
Salon
Once you get past the question of why someone would make a movie this artificial in the first place and move on to the answer (purely for the hell of it), Sukiyaki Western Django is a blood-drenched, dynamite, often hilarious and uniquely weird big-screen entertainment. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
The ideal viewer is a Miike fan...You know who you are. - 70
Film Threat
While it is a glossy crowd pleaser, it still has a few typically off the wall, classic Miike touches. - 67
The A.V. Club
Loses some of its appeal once the novelty of Miike's conceptual shenanigans wears off. - 60
Village Voice
This delirious spaghetti eastern could only have come from the boiling brain of Takashi Miike, the prolific Japanese auteur whose spectacularly uneven films account for the lion's share of the past decade's most utterly batshit movie moments. - 50
Variety
Basic joke wears off after five minutes, and many bystanders will start to head out of town. But genre/Asian buffs prepared to ride shotgun for two hours will be rewarded with some classy action sequences and densely accoutred widescreen lensing. - 50
The New York Times
More often there is a frantic, compulsive quality to the action. Fanboy intoxication with the idea of formal ingenuity too often stands in for the thing itself. - 50
New York Post
Darkly funny (par for the course with Miike), visually stunning and full of references to other films.
