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TIFF Trailer: Sukiyaki Western Django

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. We’ve got the trailer below.

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.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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