Takashi Miike's utterly deranged homage to westerns all'italia relocates a hybrid of A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964) and DJANGO (1966 ) to a 19th-century Japan where saloons stand next to Buddhist temples, outlaws dress like harajuku kids, feathers explode from gunshot wounds and dialogue is delivered in phonetic English so weirdly cadenced that self-conciously cliched lines like "a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do" approach surreal poetry.
A nameless gunslinger (Hideaki Ito) rides into a dusty flyspeck of a town called Yuta, Nebada, where warring clans in search of hidden treasure are terrorizing the few residents who haven't yet fled. The red-clad Heike a...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
98 mins