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Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django is a pretty mind-blowing experience. It's a western apparently populated with Japanese pop stars speaking in variable English accents, as two clans, the Reds and the Whites, fight over a town's gold. It's anime in live action, much of the time, exciting, but also funny and tragic. Now what's especially interesting is the Django brand which has recently made a splash thanks to a little film called Django Unchained, which you might have heard of, made by a guy called Quentin Tarantino. Well, THIS movie was made in 2007 AND Tarantino's IN IT. It's more than a cameo - he gets 2-3 scenes on a terrifyingly expressionistic set - but when the Django song came up in the end credits (in Japanese of course), there could be no doubt of the cross-pollination at work here. Not sure which way it went either. Miike is a very inventive director, and he plays with the form, throws strange images at you, and often plays to metaphor, delightfully. The only thing I'm not sure he gets away with his forcing his actors to speak English, which often makes the dialog come across as stilted and at time difficult to understand (we kept the subtitles on). One of the strangest westerns you ever might see, so put it on your list, cinephiles!

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