Sukiyaki Western Django
- Hideaki Ito: The Nameless
- Koichi Satō: Kiyomori
- Yusuke Iseya: Yoshitsune
- Masanobu Ando Yoichi
- Takaaki Ishibashi: Benkei
- Shun Oguri: Akira
- Masato Sakai: Shigemori
- Yoshino Kimura: Shizuka
- Teruyuki Kagawa: Sheriff Hoanka
- Kaori Momoi: Ruriko
- Yutaka Matsushige: Toshio
- Renji Ishibashi: Mura
- Yoji Tanaka: Munemori
- Toshiyuki Nishida: Piripero
- Quentin Tarantino: Piringo
- Ruka Uchida: Heihachi
Sukiyaki Western Django (Japaneseスキヤキ·ウエスタン ジャンゴ, Sukiyaki Uesutan Jango ) is a film directed by Takashi Miike, published in 2007, which is well known for the horror film Audition.
The name is derived from the Japanese stew Sukiyaki, a nod to spaghetti westerns, which were also called Spaghetti Western, and the Western film Django Sergio Corbucci of with Franco Nero in the title role. Besides well-known Japanese actors involved with Quentin Tarantino was busy, which was his own Italo Western inspired by Django, rotate, later.
Action
Some centuries after the Genpei War combat two rival clans, the white-clad Genji and the Heike dressed in red, except for 's blood. Meanwhile, moving a nameless stranger through the city Yuta. After rejecting the requests of both clans he finds shelter with a woman named Ruriko. Since experiencing the Nameless that several years ago was held gold mining in the city, and that the warring clans fight for the remaining gold.
Background
- The protagonist is represented as a nameless gunslinger, in allusion to the " Dollars Trilogy" by Sergio Leone, in turn, from the Japanese film Yojimbo - The Bodyguard was derived. The film is often cited as inspiration and fundamental to the development of spaghetti westerns.
- Some scenes of the aforementioned film is also reflected in the plot of this film.
- The film proved to be a flop, as he has recorded only about 3 million again with a budget of about $ 4,000,000.
Criticism
On the side of Rotten Tomatoes, an online database collections of various reviews, the film got 56 percent. The lexicon of the International film writes about the "hard, very unusual" film, " which is part of in a slightly surreal environment re-import of the Kurosawa classic Yojimbo, which is to revive the Japanese cinema with troublesome English-speaking actors. "
Awards
At the International Film Festival of Venice director Takashi Miike of was nominated for the Golden Lion.