Monday, February 09, 2009

Sukiyaki Western Django

A delirious hyper-real spaghetti eastern swirl, colourful, violent and not shy with the Shakespeare references. Two Japanese clans, one in white, one in red, fight it out in a town called Nevada, into which comes a gunman in black, setting off a chain of events that eventually culminates in all-out pitched battle and a series of pistol/machine gun/samurai sword showdowns (did I mention that all the dialogue sounds as if it's being rendered phonetically) - it's a homage to the western but done over in style and given a thousand tiny and several large idiosyncratic twists, totally bonkers, and lots of fun.