Takashi Miike’s first English language film is his homage to the spaghetti western genre but includes samurai swords and guest appearance from master of the homages Quentin Tarantino. One of the more interesting titles in the Midnight Madness section at TIFF, you can bet that Sukiyaki Western Django will make waves on the world film circuit and will most likely get picked up for U.S exhibition after the first screening. We've got the trailer below.
Tighten your saddlebags, load your revolvers and pack your chopsticks for cult cinema bad boy Takashi Miike's audacious wagon ride mash-up into the wild, wild east. A familiar spaghetti western premise that involves a mysterious stranger arriving into the middle of two clans feuding over hidden loot gets sliced and diced into new Americana-Kabuki-baroque fare: Buddhist temples sit alongside saloons, samurai swords hang from gun belts and sake flows with blood. Blue-eyed samurai Quentin Tarantino makes his first Japanese film appearance in Miike's first English language film.
