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Overall Rank: 8821

Average Rating: 2.5/4

# of Ratings: 23

Theatrical Release Date: 08/29/2008

Language: Japanese

Genre: Action, Western

MPAA Rating: R

Director: Takashi Miike

Actors: Hideaki Ito, Masanobu Ando, Koichi Sato, Kaori Momoi, Yusuke Iseya, Renji Ishibashi

Plot: Japanese spaghetti western homage reminiscent of Tarantino homage movies, but instead by Japanese legendary directory, Takashi Miike. -- TheStumps

Unknown - wrote on 05/31/2015

This film is essentially an homage, of an homage, of an homage. It's a stale copy of a few specific stylistic agendas all mashed together with little to no substance. Genres represented are: classic Japanese samurai, spaghetti westerns (inspired by the former), and the films of Tarantino (inspired by both formers). The main problem here is that writer/director Miike is not a good copycat. His way of constructing stories and use of dialogue do not fit any of these styles, causing a mess. The addition of Tarantino himself just makes that fact more obvious. The lack of interesting characters or dialogue, and slow pace, makes for an often boring watch.

Moviehead - wrote on 03/25/2012

Bad film. It is supposed to be beautiful tarantinesque fairy tale western, and guess what: it doesnt work.

dukeakasmudge - wrote on 09/04/2011

Worst Western Ive ever seen

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Yojimbo - wrote on 02/16/2012

A lone gunman rides into a small town being ravaged by a war between two rival gangs. In Japan. Yet another remake of Yojimbo (sort of!) it's more an amalgam of Yojimbo and its most celebrated cover version, A Fistful of Dollars. It's obvious why Quentin Tarantino got involved because it is EXACTLY the kind of idiosyncratic, genre-clashing cinematic remix that has become his bread and butter. Full of quirky characters, tongue in cheek humour and cartoon violence, SWD is really a super-stylized gangster movie that's both an affectionate homage and parody of the American western. Reminding me most of the post modern westerns of Robert Rodriguez and Sam Raimi's The Quick And The Dead, this semi-humorous update of a cinematic icon is also quite reminiscent of Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi. The …