Terrible. Visually appealing, but with nothing else going for it. If you want to mute something and pay no attention to a storyline or characters whatsoever, while still feeding the eyes, this is the movie for you.

Visually pleasing but there is not much else to it. Tarantino makes paying homage to something fun and entertaining, Mike just didn't captivate me at all. Watch "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" instead.

(Japanese Longer Edit): Sukiyaki + Western + Django = Red Harvest + Glass Key + Yojimbo + Fistfull of Dollars + Last Man Standing + Youth of the Beast + Django = Gangster + Jidai-geki + Western + Spaghetti Western + Yakuza + Modern Bullet Ballet = USA + Italy + Japan = Miike + Tarantino = Postmodern Selfenfranchising Clusterfuck = A statement about the evolution of narrative and its cultural origins. Maybe. At least it's fun.

"Though Miike is a visually accomplished filmmaker capable of staging simultaneous action on more than one visual plane, his knack for aesthetic inventiveness only surfaces in occasional moments of inspiration." - Andrew Schenker

Visually stimulating but I was lost most of the time.

It's fun, but it's very derivative, and it doesn't really supersede its source material in any way, it just blends them together recklessly. I have no idea why people complain about the Tarantino cameo, because the film is clearly influenced a lot by Kill Bill vol 2.

Gets better as it goes along, or perhaps it just takes a while to get used to. Ridiculous and hilarious.

Never finished...interesting and great costumes.

The more and more I look into Takashi Miike, the more I'm sure I won't find a film I like.

A fairly decent Japanese style retelling of... For a Fistful of Dollars, which, come to think of it, is a retelling of Yojimbo, so... yeah. Still, it's funny in parts, and has that Japanese style action shit, so that's cool. A real pleaser for certain crowds, and must see for big fans of both aforementioned films.

strange...

While I've always been impressed with Miike's creative genius, I find that being subjected to his work is usually uncomfortable--and rarely in a good way, although I did love Audition. Sukiyaki Western Django is the first movie of his I've seen that I've been consistently entertained by, and the first one to wow me with its visuals. I thought this was a funny, unique homage, with the Engrish being its one and only drawback. Also, everything Tarantino says and does in this is hilarious.

Overall Enjoyment: 35/40, Plot/Themes: 20/20, Cinematography/Direction: 20/20, Acting/Writing: 15/20 A literal Samarui Western mash-up with some war of the roses thrown in for good measure. This movie has it all with fantastic costume design, cinematography, setting, characters, and some great fight scenes. An incredibly wacky and enjoyable experience all around.

Why not, right? It's not exactly "Yojimbo", but it's not "Tokyo Gore Police" either.

Pretty much all the worst things about someone like Tarantino's obsession with Japan rolled into one. Boring as dirt.

I sure didn't knew that Franco Nero was an asian at his childhood

A samurai western with Japanese actors speaking English and a plot that's the standard man-with-no-name ("Don't come here and try to play Yojimbo!") filtered through 70 years of back-and-forth between American, Japanese, and Italian directors. Every line is a cool one-liner, Quentin Tarantino plays the old wise sensei to the hot-headed young Japanese gunslingers (that's not a metaphor) and I'm never sure if this is a movie or a movie about movies. Very entertaining, and very very violent.

This movie has some good parts but other parts dragged on. I can not quite recommend this one.

Visually fantastic, really stylish. Great action set piece at the end. Quite a funny, quirky movie as well. Then that's where I get really confused... was the choice to have them speaking in broken english intentional or was it just poor as shit acting? Either way, it's still an amazing movie, but once I figure that out, I might like it more than I do now, because it'd add the extra dimension to it. Somebody help me and I'll give you a gun and some gold.

It looks great most of the time but this is one of Miikes weaker movies.

in a ill advised attempt to imitate hoarse western bad ass voices miike ends up nurturing godzilla style buffoonery--only no bad voice overs. the style here is actually pretty good, what can be said for the acting and story, not so much.

I can't tell if this is Miike doing Yojimbo by way of A Fistful Of Dollars or Miike doing Blazin' Saddles, but either way it's not boring- Not necessarily good, but definitely not boring...

This movie was designed for a specific kind of person: not me. While taking the Wild West and essentially turning it into a Samurai-fueled playground would sound like a pretty awesome premise, this movie suffers from pacing and tone problems that draw mixed feelings and confusion when trying to identify even with its heroes. What am I supposed to feel here? Guys? Guys??

Great art direction and cool action scenes, but the story and characters aren't really fulfilling.

Loved the bad English (weird that people complain about that), the seeming allergy to substance and the ridiculous gore; the not caring if it's more like A Fistful of Dollars or Django was also a plus.

It just didn't feel right. The broken English, the cliche plot, and the shallow characters screwed it up.

Visual and fun are ok but rest or too silly or just not understanding why? Still not Tarantino ? Hm...

A presença de Tarantino serve apenas para uma coisa: ser ignorada. Tendo isso em mente, relaxe e aproveite, pois esse filme é diversão pura! Tanto para fãs dos filmes de samurai de Kurosawa, quanto para os fãs do western de Leone. Mas não se iluda, isso não é um filme samurai, muito menos um western. Isso é Takashi Miike.

Some great visual gags, a joyful insanity and overall striking appearance, but the pacing is off and the allusions hit you over the head. If you're going to watch Yojimbo, might I suggest Yojimbo?

Too quirky and self-conscious for its own good. There's a lot of great cinematography, and it's fun to catch some of the references, but that's about all this film's got going for it. The actors speak awkward Engrish, which only detaches the viewer from the film instead of... whatever the intention was. The plot is incomprehensible, and the whole time I was sitting there wondering what the hell this had to do with Corbucci's original. It's overbearing, and I couldn't wait for it to end.

I get the whole "actors are deliberately coached to speak bad English" thing. Really I do. It links back to the old spaghetti westerns, where nobody natively spoke English; and it definitely adds another element to the sukiyaki of themes and motifs. But the thing about a stylistic choice is, it's a choice. As in, you should choose carefully when to use it, and not have it during every single scene.

Really cool film, but that's all there's to it. Well worth watching, though.

The first half is everything that Grindhouse should have been: ironic, cool and visually great. The other half, however, drags. A lot. But it still looks awesome.

Style over substance film that is too busy winking at the audience and cracking wise to remain coherent and compelling. I have no problem with over the top violence and imaginative takes on familiar genres, but this feels really shallow and not nearly as much fun as it should have been.

It hits roughly as much as it misses, the plot is largely incoherent however the dialogue is frequently funny. A strange film.