| rdfs:comment | - Sukiyaki Western Django (スキヤキ・ウエスタン ジャンゴ Sukiyaki Western Django) is a 2007 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. The movie's plot is based on Sergio Leone's Sphaghetti Western "A Fistful of Dollars", as well as Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo". The movie makes references to Old Westerns and Samurai films including Sergio Corbucci's 1966 western "Django", Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" and the "Dollars" trilogy by Sergio Leone. The entire film is shot in English, a notable fact since none of the actors involved were fluent in English at the time of filming.
- The film takes its plot from the Spaghetti Western film genre - Django, among others, hence the name, although significant plot elements come from Yojimbo and its de facto remake A Fistful of Dollars: sukiyaki is a hot pot or "steamboat" dish often used as a generic label of "Japaneseness".
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| abstract | - The film takes its plot from the Spaghetti Western film genre - Django, among others, hence the name, although significant plot elements come from Yojimbo and its de facto remake A Fistful of Dollars: sukiyaki is a hot pot or "steamboat" dish often used as a generic label of "Japaneseness".
* Anachronism Stew
* Arbitrary Gun Power: Sometimes, gun shots will blow you across the room, and some times they'll just be annoying.
* Barehanded Blade Block: Played straight, then subverted for laughs.
* Bittersweet Ending: The two rival clans are defeated and the hero gets (but walks away from) the gold, but nearly every single one of his allies is killed by the end.
* Blown Across the Room: The Mercy Kill on the guy who gets a sword 6 inches in his head blows him out of frame.
* Do Not Call Me Paul: the leader of the Reds insists on being called Henry, instead of his birth name of Kiyomori, after Henry VI, because "in Shakespeare's story, the Reds win".
* Eternal Recurrence: The Genpei War, apparently.
* Fake American: With two exceptions, every actor in this is Japanese, and with two exceptions, every line in this is in English.
* Faux Fluency: Filmed with English dialogue by Japanese actors, most of whom don't speak English all that well.
* Quentin Tarantino both has a line in Japanese and a line in English with a sudden dramatic Japanese accent.
* "QUUUUUEEEEAM GWWWWAAAAVVYYYYYY!!"
* Flat What:
* Gatling Good: See the 5 o'clock position on the page image.
* Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!: "Bloody Benten," also a Badass Grandma.
* Hey, It's That Guy: Of course the Whites are going to win. Their leader is Kazuo Kiriyama.
* Hollywood Atlas: More astute viewers may notice that Nevada is not in Japan.
* Immune to Bullets: Bloody Benten reacts to being shot in the back 3 times by turning around and looking annoyed.
* Implausible Fencing Powers: Along with Barehanded Blade Block, the white's leader can deflect bullets with his katana.
* Instant Death Bullet: If you're not a main character. See Arbitrary Gun Power.
* Kill'Em All: Nearly every character to have appeared on screen is dead by the last scene.
* Knight Errant
* Lead the Target: Used by the leader of the whites, Yoichi, who shoots "Henry" from kilometers away by "boomeranging" the bullets with gravity into his path. Three times!
* Madness Mantra: During the final battle, Henry keeps stating that "This time, the Reds win!"
* Nothing Up My Sleeve: The final gunshot.
* Not So Harmless: It is the Sheriff that kills the legendary Bloody Benten at the end of the movie. And he is immediately killed by the old woman from the mountains with a grave marker.
* Purely Aesthetic Era: More than one with Anachronism Stew.
* Red Oni White Oni
* Serial Escalation: How much can we eschew substance in favor of style?
* Snow Means Death
* Theme Music Withholding: a cover of Franco Migliacci's Django theme appears in the final scene.
* There Is No Kill Like Overkill
* The Sheriff:
* Comic Relief
* The Quisling
* Butt Monkey
* Toon Physics
* Throw-Away Guns: In one shot in the final battle, the protagonist throws an empty gun through a man.
* Together in Death: Ruriko and Toshiro
* What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: The sukiyaki in the opening scene.
* Worthy Opponent: Yoichi claims to be searching for this his entire life and thinks he finds it in the protagonist.
- Sukiyaki Western Django (スキヤキ・ウエスタン ジャンゴ Sukiyaki Western Django) is a 2007 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. The movie's plot is based on Sergio Leone's Sphaghetti Western "A Fistful of Dollars", as well as Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo". The movie makes references to Old Westerns and Samurai films including Sergio Corbucci's 1966 western "Django", Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" and the "Dollars" trilogy by Sergio Leone. The entire film is shot in English, a notable fact since none of the actors involved were fluent in English at the time of filming.
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