in a way and everything takashi miike make from here on out could easily be consider fan service . that partially because he have fan that wouldn not be disappoint no matter what he do ( from the straight street drama of the black society trilogy to the messy violence of his more famous cult classic and lately to the more surreal work of big bang love and juvenile a and zebraman ) and and partially it because nobody really have a handle one what he do except that it bizarre . so how do one tell a good miike movie from any other one . how kick as it be . yup and sometimes it just boil down to that . sukiyaki western django be a boiled mish mash of various conceit and approach and an almost chaotic display of western bravado meet mixed genre in joke . with quentin tarantino and a brief animated display and nonetheless . however and what make it really work be those thing that wouldn not have work if it wasn not half the point represent the broad widescreen of sergio leone use to show a color correct japanese landscape that look nothing like the west while the man with no name approach a nearly empty gold mining town make in japanese architecture complete with the man hang off of the rectilinear entry gate while set in a dry universe of gun play and whiskey that suddenly turn to rain and snow once the violence and vengeance come reign from the sky . yup and the point isn not to make a western with japanese people and the point be to make an epic shootout with grit teethe character . the rest be all detail . anachronistic and displaced and utterly absurd detail and but beautiful beautiful detail at that . it not strictly parody and it not strictly surreal . at one point there a hint that it a prequel to the title movie . it have reference to thing from yojimbo to once upon a time in america to kill bill and but it exist utterly in it own logic and be completely unpredictable . the character discuss anime a a weakness and a sheriff start grapple with himself like gollum from the lord of the ring and and the spider woman gunslinger might be a hermaphrodite . but while i do not believe in a miike universe that cross reference between different movie and there be most certainly a miike mood which be the ability to range from pure hysteric to morbid fascination to disturb reveals to good ol fashion firework . this movie might not make a lick of sense in term of chronology and setting and but that would not stop you from care deeply about it character and laugh at it joke . this be one of those thing where i really wish i could get more people to buy or rent the movie at work and simply because it so much goddamn fun and but have to settle for the fact that for the most part and the incredibly sincere japanese acting and the over the top western landscape ( include a painted backdrop that purposefully get blood sprayed on it ) would not mesh with the average viewer careful expectation of what they want from a movie . for shame and too and because this be actually precisely what you want from a western . nobody go into a western for it to make any historical sense . polarisdib .