Visitor Q
2001 ‘Bijitâ Q’ Directed by Takashi Miike
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A father, who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. "Q", a perfect stranger somehow gets involved and enter the bizzare family who's son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict
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Oh look, a gripping Japanese family drama that lays bare the nuclear family.
Hold on now....
Now wait a minute.....what....WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? DON'T DO THAT!! NO...NO....BAD JAPANESE PERSON BAD...BAD!!! STOP LACTATING WOMAN!!! DO NOT RAPE THAT CORPSE!!!!! INCEST IS BAD, JAPANESE PERSON, BAD!!!
Damnit, this can't get any worse.......or.....nononono STOP DOING THAT TO YOUR MOTHER......AND TELL HER TO STOP LACTATING!!!! DRUGS ARE BAD!! SO IS MURDER!!! AND DISMEMBERMENT!!! BAD BAD JAPANESE PERSON!!
it's over......gotta love the Japanese.....
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I have come to expect nothing less than the most twisted and perplexing films from Takashi Miike. Shot like a home video, occasionally being filmed with hand-held camcorders used by the cast, making it have a sense of realism while it is truly pure, unfiltered insanity. Starting off like a simple family drama with Miike's signature touch of lunacy, but don't fall for its coy act. Featuring graphic scenes that would challenge Audition (1999), one of his most well-known works, but having a deliciously contracting goofy tone. Once again Miike has completely warped my mind; he works wonders with what other filmmakers would turn into repulsive garbage.
Chronicling the exploits of a single dysfunctional family after the random arrival of…
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Visitor Q is another one that has been sitting on my shelf for ages, I have been making an effort to watch all of the neglected films in my collection.
Visitor Q is a 2001 effort by Takashi Miike, that was done on digital video on a very low budget (part of six films, in the Love Cinema series) ... filmed in three days I believe, I might be wrong. The film focuses on a family falling apart in extreme ways, and although you could say the subject matter is shocking, it is done in a surreal cartoonish dark humour. The film will leave an impression no matter what, whether you just take away the absurd situations and characters or believe it to be a social commentary on the traditional nuclear family. Just be prepared for incest, drug use, murder, beatings, necrophilia and microphone buggery ... and you might be ok.
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This film had been built up to me as a gross-out horror, extreme exploitation film; and true to exploitation form, much of it is a chore to get through.
This reminds me of when I was in high school and decided to try and watch all the video nasties. I watched Evil Dead and was blown away, the followed it with Killer Nun expecting thrills and kills but what I got was bored. OK, so one dud, let's try again: Anthropophagus. Why did nothing happen for the vast majority of the movie? I quickly lost interest in the project and never got around to finishing the list. I'll still seek out the occasional video nasty here or there but the… -
Fucked up from start to finish - but totally awesome. After the dead or alive movies Takashi Miike cranks up the weirdness factor to 11.
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Violence begets violence in this bizarre, voyeuristic, blackly comic tale of family dysfunction and abuse. Features intergenerational violence, sexual perversion, substance abuse, and copious amounts of bodily fluids.
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Visually stymied but material is great (haven't seen Pasolini's original)
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What can I write about this film? I saw things in this film that I have never seen in my life, even in pornography, but yet I laughed my damn heart out. This is a piece of sick, depraved cinema, done in stunning fashion by the actors. Ken'ichi Endo puts in one of the best comedic performances ever done. If you can get over Miike's twisted sense of horror, and enjoy the smarter concept within, you are in for the ride of your life. But beware, once you have watched Visitor Q, you can never delete it from your mind. Recommended, but not at all for the narrow minded.
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Now l know that if l ever get stuck in a dead person, heroin is the answer to my problem.
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Note: I'm not saying this film is a 0/10. I just don't know how to rate it.
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Visitor Q is another one that has been sitting on my shelf for ages, I have been making an effort to watch all of the neglected films in my collection.
Visitor Q is a 2001 effort by Takashi Miike, that was done on digital video on a very low budget (part of six films, in the Love Cinema series) ... filmed in three days I believe, I might be wrong. The film focuses on a family falling apart in extreme ways, and although you could say the subject matter is shocking, it is done in a surreal cartoonish dark humour. The film will leave an impression no matter what, whether you just take away the absurd situations and characters or believe it to be a social commentary on the traditional nuclear family. Just be prepared for incest, drug use, murder, beatings, necrophilia and microphone buggery ... and you might be ok.
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to say a miike movie is odd is an understatement. to say this movie is just fucking bizarre is even more of an understatement.
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Fucked up from start to finish - but totally awesome. After the dead or alive movies Takashi Miike cranks up the weirdness factor to 11.
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Auf den zweiten Blick, sobald sich das Schockpotential abgenutzt hat, mag Visitor Q wohl nicht mehr so zu „verzaubern“, da er sich jenseits aller Form als eine eher oberflächliche Kritik an der moralisch rapide dahin siechenden Jugend Japans versteht – was auch das Thema des Dokumentarfilms ist, das Yamazaki versucht zu drehen, indem er seinen eigenen mißratenen Sohn und sich selbst als ineffektive Autoritätsfigur in das Zentrum seines Films stellen will – und die Sucht nach Reality-TV anprangert, dem Verlangen nach Authentizität in Medien, die es immer nur indirekt vermitteln können. Erst als der Vater seine Kamera endlich beiseite legt, und für seine Familie zu kämpfen beginnt, findet er zurück zu seiner verlorenen Männlichkeit und seiner vormals gestörten Identität. Gedreht…
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DARK, DISTURBING, SICK OR JUST PLAIN WEIRD: Review No. 17
Takashi Miike, one of my favourite horror directors and one weird, twisted son of a bitch. That's why i love him! So much horrid nasty stuff going on here, incest, sodomy, drug use, beatings, prostitution, projectile lactating teats.... and so on. One of my favourite scenes has to be the necrophilia scene.'Hang on!' I hear you cry 'You enjoyed watching necrophilia?!' Well actually, it with done with such comedic genius, i couldn't hep but. Getting your cock locked up inside a rigamortis corpse covered in shit is not the best way to end your day. But shhhh, Ill let you in on a secret, a nice big shot of heroin and Mr Happy will slip right out of there like a tortoise preparing for winter.
Not my favourite Miike film but still a jolly good watch any day of the week!