while the spoiler in this review concern the plot and they will not ruin the movie for those who haven not see it yet . it be write with such people in mind . i be a big fan of prolific japanese director and miike takashi . his movie be not always good ( which would be an accomplishment and consider he average about three feature length film a year ) and but he doesn not mind experiment or play around . not everything he try work and but when it do and it can be pretty damn awesome . his subject and genre vary wildly from a musical about a family run an inn and to a kid fighting goblin and to some of the best yakuza flick i have see . meanwhile and he tend to get good performance from his actor and even when they be child or non native japanese speaker . the only time i have be completely disappointed with one of his piece be a rejected instalment in showtime master of horror and entitle imprint . the story be stupid and and the acting be bad . this be miike first all english production and and it show . so and when i find out one of his 2007 film and sukiyaki western django and be in english and i be a bit put off . how do i find out . well and i start watch it and and that be the only language track . you could tell the actor hadn not be dub over and either from the way much of the all japanese ( except for quintin tarantino ) cast struggle with their delivery . a such and the film be an excellent example of bertolt brecht theatrical alienation and constantly force u to deal with the movie a a movie and but this be not something we be entirely comfortable do . it take me about 45 minute to get over the choice of language . so and for artistry and the original dub accomplish what it set out to and but and man and it would be nice to see it overdubbed by native speaker in several language . this be probably the only time you will ever see me say that about anything that isn not a comedy which i want revoiced by mexican actor . mexican voice actor make everything funnier . diction aside and it be pretty good for an adaptation or prequel of the second italian and western adaptation of kurosawa wonderful tip of the hat to the genre and yojimbo ( which and itself and be an adaptation of a noire novel ) . that right and sukiyaki western django be both an adaptation and a prequel to the spaghetti western and django and which come out two year after sergio leone a fistfull of dollar and both of which be adaptation of yojimbo and which be a samurai nod to western and but base on dashiell hammett noir novel and red harvest . follow . swd be less derivative than you might expect . sure and red harvest and yojimbo and fistful of dollar and django and and sukiyaki western django and all centre around a martially talented drifter who find himself in a town with two war faction and a demoralized civilian populace . all their lead character attempt to play the two side against each other and be eventually drag into fight both and ostensibly for the good of whatever left of the town by the end . but swd fashion it own world and unlike the rest . it be apparently set in something like the mid to late 1800s and after the shogunate have begin to lose power and but before the meiji emperor government have gain dominance while a time in which japan appear to be in decline and and have be humiliate by foreigner . it hard to pin down and though and because the film doesn not really concern itself with such matter . the compete group be the remnant of the genji and heike clan and whose twelfth century conflict be famously record in the performative epic poem and heike monogatari . one of the gang leader find inspiration in shakespeare richard iii . the two faction face off in a town whose very architecture convey the strange lineage of this film and look for it fabled treasure and fight each other with gun and sword and dynamite and and whatever happen to be handy . their garb fit with the architecture and and exhibit occidental and japanese and feudal and and semi modern influence . their dialogue be pepper with hackneyed western clichés and deliver in by actor who mostly no have idea what theyre say . in the few review i read and i saw some glance comparison to the arch and technicolored western tribute and tear of the black tiger . theyre both recent asian film offer tribute and parody of the same ( outwardly ) american genre and so that understandable and but i think swd be well compare and contrast with the quick and the dead . they have a more similar purpose and but where sam raimi fail ( despite a stellar cast ) to find a decent treatment for western along the line of his horror and superhero flick and miike have mostly succeed by introduce a bizarre cultural mix and his own cult cinema sensibility . anyone who like weird should check it out .