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Visitor Q
by Tokyo Shock
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DVD
Media Blasters
Publisher: Tokyo Shock
Hideo Yamamoto
Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Actors: Ken'ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Jun Mutô, Fujiko
Studio: Media Blasters Inc. Release Date: 11/26/2002 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr
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| Visitor Q - In depth review. |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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Miike Takeshi is, in my eyes, one of the top Japanese filmakers in the world today, with Ichi the Killer and Audition being too of my favourite films. Eager to get a copy of this, I watched it at a friends house after he told me it was totally and utterly OTT. He was right. But is it a good movie? Not really. Pushing the boundarys of bad taste doesn't make something worth watching.
I love anything that breaks taboos and distresses the viewer, but Visitor Q simply has no soul to it. It didn't make me feel anything. I wasn't sad or angry, scared or happy,and to be honest it didn't make me laugh much either. In fact I found myself biting ym nails and playing with my thumbs. And, before you jump to conclusions, the laughs here are very very veryyyyy dark. Some would shoot me for even calling it humour.
The way it goes, Visitor Q follows part of the life of a dysfunctional family, and trust me, boy are they dysfunctional. Some of the bizarre events in the movie include:
A husband who cannot get enough of his wife's lactating nipples, a school boy who is tied to a fence and raped, a young girl who is suffocated and covered in excrement then taken into a greenhouse where she is raped and disembowled whilst the man's penis is stuck in the girls vagina due to rigamortis...you get the picture.
Oh, and there's no music either. The whole thing is very flat. None of the characters are explored. There's limited dialogue and many of the scenes are simply longgggg and pointless shots of drug taking and torture. Something tells me Takeshi's love of school girl rape is unhealthy.
So why 2 stars? Well, despite all the negatives, something still made me watch. And to be honest, it isn't the worst film ever made, it's simply Miike Takeshi's most dissapointing.
SUMMARY!
Theme - Disturbing look at a dysfunctional modern day Japanese family.
Violence - Some, strong.
Sex & Nudity - Frequent, prolonged and sadistic.
Strong language- Frequent, very strong.
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| THE WORST PIECE OF MIIKE GARBAGE |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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Visitor Q is a pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-artsy, low budget movie that pushes the envelope of decency under the facade of creating scathing social commentary. Halfway into this movie you realize the message the movie is trying to portray is so incredibly slim and vapid, and that it is used solely as a pretext to shock and awe.
Do not be fooled. Do not believe the hype. This has much less to do with creating valuable social commentary than it has to do with inflating Miike's already uber-inflated ego. Between the lines, Visitor Q is about the pretentiousness of Miike, a man who has achieved a god-like reputation and is proving that behind the camera lens, he can show you anything he wants to, and make you celebrate him for it.
Miike relishes in his marginal position as an outsider, an auteur who thinks outside the box and is not constrained by morality's impositions. It is a shame he enjoys this role because "Audition" and "Three Extremes: Box" certainly manifest undeniable talent. Instead, he chooses to remain on the sidelines as this auteur creating horror/yakusa garbage like Fudoh, Full Metal Yakuza and Visitor Q, rather than actually striving to create quality pieces of work, which he is fully capable of.
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| Not Impressed |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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I've been torturing my copy of Audition for years and finally decided to check out the "legendary" VisitorQ. Foreign, Artsy, Disturbing, etc? Fine. VistorQ? Garbage! A standard story hidden beneath shallow shock and awe that's preoccupied with hiding the films lack of depth. This movie did not disturb me. I've seen worse. I'm not trashing it because of the incest, milk, murder, necrophilia, etc. It's just not a good movie. Two stars instead of 1 because I can barely see what this movie was trying to do. It just fails horribly.
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| One of Miike's best films. (It's not as sick as you think |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I was rather hesitant about seeing visitor q at first. I was assured by so many people of how disturbing and nonsensical it was, but I decided on my own that I should see it(I am after all a huge Miike fan).
Now I can safely say that this movie was quite a pleasant surprise. Despite all the raving about how disgusting and twisted the movie was, I was not fazed at all by it. In fact, I think that this is one of Miike's funniest and most uplifting movies yet. The humor is dark ,yes, but if you've seen enough of Miike's work, then you will have no trouble finding the lighter side of this film. And if you can see the 'lighter side' of this film, then you can understand that it is far from nonsensical. It is deeply symbolic, and the violence and twisted situations are presented in such a way, that they CAN be laughed at. And I think that is what Miike was going for.
The bottom line is, that this is one of Miike's best pieces of work, high up on the list along with The Bird People in China and Ley Lines.
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| Miike's best film, simply incredible |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Yes, Audition is masterful, but in my opinion this is Miike's best work.
The less you know about this movie the better. Yes, its sick and twisted, but its also an incredibly heartwarming family film, and no, I'm not being sarcastic. The fact that Miike can make these two elements coexist and actually work is an accomplishment in itself. I've never seen a movie so funny and shocking as this.
If you can't handle dark or twisted humor, you will not like this. If you do have that sense of humor, you will absolutely love it and consider it one of your favorite movies of all time, as I do.
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