Aug 1 2008'Sukiyaki Western Django' Trailer is Kind of Awesome, Except for All the Tarantino Parts

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What I like about Asian cinema is how often it doesn't feel the need to explain any of the ridiculous stunts being pulled off. When Keanu Reeves dodges a bullet in slow-motion, we dedicate the entire movie to expound on how his neck is plugged into an alien-run computer program thing and that he ate a pill and trained with Lawrence Fishburne and whatever, just so we can see some decent stunts. Don't need it. When this guy in Takashi Miike's Sikiyaki Western Django slices through a bullet in mid-air, the explanation is so much simpler: because this guy is really awesome. That's the way it should be. Though I wouldn't mind some explanation of why Quentin Taratino is playing multiple roles, and why one of those roles is in an elderly fat suit.

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Tarantino is a terrible actor, but my general feeling after watching it is "Why the fuck not?"

"alien-run" THE MATRIX IS NOT ALIEN RUN! Watch the movie again genius it's run by computers and robots!!! Don't you know anything about The Matrix, geez!

Tarantino. STAY THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY OF THE CAMERA. Love you behind it. BUT NOT IN FRONT!!!!!!!!!!

NERD ALERT

Tarantino kills it. What kind of accent is that anyhow?HORRIBLE. A wirefu western.....The Good, The Bad and The Weird looks so much better.

Very amusing... LOOKS GREAT.

Same role, younger version is a flashback.

can't watch anything japanese unless they are running away from giant lizards.

Saw this movie a few months ago - it's actually really great once you get past the "English" pronunciations (which is difficult for the first 20 mins, not gonna lie). The movie is filmed in phonetic English, and it's very obvious that the Asian actors are just speaking what sounds like gibberish to them but is barely discernible as english to us.

Ken speaks the truth.

This film has been out for about a year now. Why is there a trailer posted here? Is it just now coming Stateside?

Go download a torrent and give it a watch. Good shit and I'd definitely pay to see it in the theater.

I really enjoyed this movie - got to see it at the NZ International Film Fest. Luckily, Tarantino isn't in it THAT much (cos by god he is awful) and the multiple characters he supposedly plays are in fact the same character (as a young 'un and as an old geezer).

Well worth seeing. Best dressed gangs ever.

That looked awesome.
I can't wait to see this.

TAKASHI MIIKE DIRECTED THIS?!? He's one of the few directors working any more who understands what you can actually do with characters and a camera. And you summed up the prime difference between American and Asian cinema: that Americans whine like hell unless every nuance of every sneeze is explained to them with crystal clear clarity. Someone once wrote that when friends complained when she tried to show them HK movies, she'd reply, "People fly. Just accept it." That's precisely why Asian cinema will always be prettier than American. LOTR wasn't pretty, just expensive. Nightwatch (I know it's Russian, but Wendy doesn't) is pretty AND A HELL OF A LOT MORE INTERESTING.

Dear Wendy,

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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS: Yes, I know Russia is in Asia. There's just that connotation-thingy..

I've seen this. Hilarious fun. Highly recommended to all.

this movie is like almost a year old... it's not out on dvd yet?

What's with all this worship of Japanese stuff? Much of the time it's so retarded all we can do is laugh about it. This movie looks to be one of those times. Maybe the Japanese don't mind it when things make absolutely no frikkin' sense and cannot suspend our disbelief for even a second, but I don't.

So stop trashing on Western cinema just because you don't care about a little realism. Not everyone agrees with you. Lord of the Rings WAS BEAUTIFUL. Shut up.

Bobeyo, and crap like Mummy 3 and Transformers aren't absolutely retarded? Riiiiiight! What I love about foreign movies is that it's an entirely different type of movie not affected by the Hollywood Money Machine and sometimes actually requires you to think because they don't beat you over the head with excessive exposition.

Now I do agree with how senseless some of the western culture bashing is. Some people do it to look cool and hip(Karl Marl is a good example). I like to acknowledge all cultures and see the strength in them.

BUT LOTR is NOT pretty. It's a lifeless, over-CGI'ed borefest that's too perfect and tidy. And fix that Matrix mistake - the movie has NOTHING to do with aliens. That's the whole point that the COMPUTERS took over the world. Wow.

The reason Tarantino is in this movie so much is because he is a fucking narcissist. He needs to stick to what he does best which is writing and directing.

shit is pronounced SKI YAKI motherfucker..

and old shit is old.. where's my good the bad and the weird..?

@ everyone who said fix the alien thing: Are you guys joking? cause honestly I can't tell. If you can't tell that he's being sarcastic you're, you know what? I'm not even going to finish that sentence. we all know that every moron who pretended they believed he was serious is just trying to steal a little bit of the glory for themselves so shut the hell up.

I do it to look cool and hip. My favorite movie is Maid in Manhattan.

Bobeyo: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
YOOOOOOUUUUURRRR'EEE NOOOOTTTT MYYYYY MOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!

But I do promise in the future to write my opinion only if I know everyone agrees with me. I loved that part in LOTR when they built a $4M set and put all the characters in the center of the frame and didn't bother moving the camera, 'cause everyone knows that'd be gay.

Fag: Yeah, it is pronounced Su KI YA KI, but then the title wouldn't have that cutesy-clever melodic tone.

PS: Bobeyo: Not minding if anything makes any friggin' sense is the ultimate display of suspending one's disbelief.

yea its out on dvd, and there's a scene release.

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I saw this a while back, and Tarantino parts aside, it was a pretty sweet movie. Really wish he wasn't in it. At all. But oh well.

looks like shit

anyone else get a Team fortress 2 vibe from that commercial? or is it just the Gatling gun wielding psychopath thats making me think that

The trailer describes this film as: "Miike's English-language masterpiece..." Yet it didn't make it to American theaters, it's already on dvd, and it appears that many of the commenters (as well as myself) have never heard of it. How good could it be? I'm sure I'll rent it anyway, I can't help myself...it looks cool. BTW: Wikipedia had some interesting reviews of this film, give 'em a read.

The fact that anyone ever let Tarantino act in a project that didn't belong to him is stunning. Just stunning.

That said, he is always better on other people's movies. Probably because other people are more apt to cast him as a foot-sucking pervert, the role he was born to play.

Do you know how they call those Spaghetti Westerns in Japan?
Macaroni Westerns”.

“What's the name of that Italian pasta again?”

“Ee... Makaroni?”

“Yees, of course! Macaroni westerns!”

(Fictional* conversation between two Japanese directors some decades ago.)

Ever heard of a Kimchee western from Korea?

Julie,
Toronto Movie Madness

I really hate the way the trailer americanises and bastardises the movie, just kinda sad that they made it look like just any other summer blockbuster type film

It's definitely a fun watch!

Dis looks good.

Tarantino's accent is so awful. Otherwise, I have no idea what to think about this. Usually I have an opinion, this just confuses me.

the only movie i thought tarantino did a good job acting in was pulp fiction

Team Fortress the Movie

Tarantino was good in Dusk til Dawn. ULTRA perv psycho.

'english language masterpiece" hahaha. ahh, that's golden. call it a masterpiece and that'll do i guess. tarantino - good director, terrible actor. still, at least he calls himself a director that acts, what do the really bas actors out there give as an excuse…

you mean to say you didnt understand the matrix?
what an IDIOT

Ichi The Killer owns this.

wtf? Is this modelled after the anime?

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