i must confess i be a bit of a fan of the prolific takashi miike . film like audition and dead or alive and visitor q and gozu leave rather indelible impression on me . that say i have not watch all of his many film and at the rate the man churn them out i may have my work cut out for me just to keep up . that say let focus on sukiyaki western django just release limit in the u . right at the get go we begin with an off the wall cameo by quentin tarantino and feature a monologue and a gunfight and all set before an almost cartoonish paint backdrop of a snow tip mountain and a looming red sun . after this quirky intro the real story begin and a yojimbo theme western tale and feature an all japanese cast delivering there line in english and seemingly often dub as well . here be where some already voice there objection and argue that the native japanese speaker should speak in their own language rather than sometimes struggle to deliver the line in english . it do make for sometimes rather herky jerky delivery on the part of the actor and but when you consider that the whole film be pay love homage to a great tradition of film by the like of leone and others and which usually feature overdubbing and often by other actor even and it seem almost fitting that the dialog delivery in sukiyaki be what it be . really the whole film be a what if . what if instead of europe posing a the wild west we have japan and instead of predominantly italian or spanish actor we have a japanese cast . well miike ask the question and answer it with sukiyaki western django a gleeful homage that lovingly reference and even satirize the hugely popular western so firmly root in the pulp and legend of the american west and and yet ironically shape so decisively by the perspective of men like kurosawa and leone . not my favorite miike film but nonetheless very much worth the watch and and akin in spirit to tarantino own recent homage of sort and death proof .