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From left, Koichi Sato, Teruyuki Kagawa and Masato Sakai in Takashi Miike’s “Sukiyaki Western Django.”
August 29, 2008
Sergio Leone Meets Reservoir Dog in Japanese Pastiche
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: August 29, 2008

“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. More

If you like Takashi Miike, watch Sukiyaki Western Django.