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Summary: Miike's one sick mutha!!!
Review: By far Miike's most disgusting and vile entry, but also very interesting and entertaining...even though, and I should warm you...not for the faint of heart or those with weak stomach, this film will test audiences to the limit! I couldn't explain the amount of grotesqueness in this film...almost every frame is as vile and sick as a garbage truck, but it is a masterpiece in its own right. you almost get the feeling that you 're actually watching a reallity show ...but a very nasty one. Takashi miike is a cinematic genious and this is his most disturbing and creative film so far. I won't review it because I hate reviews...but if you are not familiar with Miike's work, try Audition or Ichi the killer first. If you are able to finnish watching those films, or by any chance find'em entertaining (which they certainly are!!!) then move for Visitor Q ...but be prepared...this will shock the living crap out of you!
Rating: 
Summary: A little too weird for myself.. but still entertaining.
Review: Filmmaker Takashi Miike makes a lot of movies - 62 total since 1991!, each one weirder than the last.
Unfortunately, this one was a little too weird.
Swaying away from Miike's typical over-the-top action (The stuff you've seen in movies such as Kill Bill's massive fight), he goes for a much more psychotic feel in this film - Unlike any of his work I've seen before - And this will surely turn most viewers off to the film.
In the first 25 minutes of the film alone, you see:
Incest, Blackmail, Graphic sex, Drug use, Prostitution, Family abuse, Nudity (Full frontal, although censored below), Attacks with objects, Intense chool bullying, and Sexual assault.
From that point, it gets much worse as the movie goes on.
The basic story involves a man who used to be a reporter (Or at least tried to be), filming his encounters on the street, hoping to one day become a popular news-anchor. One day, while filming, a group of people physically abuse and humiliate him (All while his cameraman films it), Destined to turn it into a story he submits it to a local station who in turn makes a big joke out of him publicly using the tape.
Now, he's destined to still become a reporter, Carrying a videocamera around with him wherever he goes, filming whatever possible to one day become a news anchor.. No matter what it is.
His son (About 15) constantly beats his mother (The camera-man's wife) while their entire family ignores it. His mother prostitutes herself to afford drug's from the local drugdealer in the park. The son gets beat up, humiliated, and tormented everyday at school, as well as his house. The father decided instead of helping him, he'd rather film everything to hopefully turn that into local news to finally get the job he wanted. Finally, the mans daughter has just moved out of the house and is a prostitute herself (To afford a living on her own), her father even being a customer of hers (And again, filming everything). All while a strange man has moved into their house.
The movie is very intense, and very disturbing in the short time it runs for (Just over an hour and 10 minutes total).
It's the last 20 minutes that turn to traditional Miike-style going completely over the top in a humorous way. There are also a few funny adult jokes within the movie.
The movie is definately not for everyone, including Miike-fans, its not the type of movie that warrants repeat viewings, but if you're not turned off by any of the above mentioned, it is an interesting movie that is much more unique than the norm and I'd recommend it. To anyone else even slightly disturbed by the mentioned above, save yourself the money and pass on this one :)
I personally found it entertaining, but I've been a longtime Miike fan and have gotten used to some of his weirdness. For someone new to his work, I'd recommend purchasing his movie "Ichi the killer" instead, its a much easier film to get into and will appeal to a much larger audiance while having a cult feel to it.
Rating: 
Summary: Total trash
Review: How can anyone watch this? Surely only the most braindead people would want to see it. Too cruel to be funny and too cheap and trashy to be considered art. Maybe the audience for this is the same one for Jackass. Those people think a bottle rocket up the [...] is funny. I'm not a prude either but this is garbage. If you want to see a great Takashi Miike film - see Audition. That was a work of art and scary as hell.
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Summary: Visitor Q
Review: I happened upon this little masterpiece while visiting my sister in Minneapolis. I saw it at a local art gallery by the name of "The Walker". I think, I was probably the only one out of the three of us who attended in our small group who absolutely loved this film. It was so demented, so twisted, and so unbelievably hilarious, that I began to regret living in Florida, where such films are non-existant. No heavy worded review here, simply a solid thumbs up. If you enjoy cynicism, creatively revamped, and artfully employed... you'll love this film. Its almost like taking every fault you might find with a family, amplifying it to an astounding end, and then just taking a sharp left into insensability. This film has it all, an abusive son who is then bullied by his peers, a lactating mother hooked on heroin, a father who not only delves in necrophelia, but lest we forget incest, and a number of other things. Thats alright however, as everyone is sucking on mummys nipples at the end. Its then you smack yourself in the face with the proverbial hand of understanding, and exclaim... "Oh now I get it". Yeah... its great.
Rating:
Summary: The Worst movie I've ever seen
Review: I must say, Takashi Miike; the director of this film is a very disturbed individual. I feel like this was made only to shock and disgust people. other than that, there's absolutely nothing to it. From a Japanese female point of view, I was very offended and disgusted by the story. This film is SICK - I would not recommend it.
Rating:
Summary: just watch it
Review: I'll be honest and admit I had to turn it off after 30 minutes because my girlfriend couldn't stand it. I had to watch it when she went to work. I loved it. There are a lot of reviews that try to explain what it all means and what Miike is trying to do. Forget trying to understand. Just watch it and explore the style and the things he throws in the film. Sure, you might be offended. I wasn't. Just keep an open mind and immerse yourself in his world. It's wild and wacky. Let go! Most importantly....have fun!
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Summary: ....
Review: I'm a big Miike fan, but I must admit, Visitor Q left me unimpressed and a bit sick of this attempt to push or cross the line while illustrating a moral.I loved this film for it's exposure of elements..true elements of what seems to be the downfall of the Japanese (and even Western) family life/structure. Most elements of the family's disfunction were either taken strait from the Japanese newspapers or bore incredible similarity, but, the genius of that was lost when every thing from incest, fulls scenes showing middle-aged lactating, scatology, necrophilia, domestic abuse and murder were featured in an almost pornographic-like manner. This was Miike showing off and patting himself on the back while doing it. Sadly, it really is, or could be, a great story, but the story itself seemed to much to be a means of holding graphic scene of every taboo together.
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Summary: No cannibalism!
Review: If you have never seen a a Takasha Miike film, don't make this your first. If you found this movie because some freak like me happened to buy it along with something normal and you got a "customers who bought blank also bought Visitor Q" then click the back button right away! As the subject says, there is absolutely no cannibalism in this movie! It has everything else though, including things I never imagined. I bought this movie sight unseen because of who directed it, and until that moment I never realized that I had a complete and total lack of movies about incest, lactational-watersports, and necrophilia. This movie took care of all three in one fell swoop. Interestingly, this movie is fairly simple and straightforward compared to movies like Audition, and The Happiness of the Katakuris. I had to watch those movies several times (and if you've never seen Audition you can't imagine how hard that can be) before I felt that I had a grasp of what was going on. Visitor Q is pretty simple: an angel comes to help a dysfunctional family get back together. That said, don't be fooled into complacency! Watch this movie alone first, and then think long and hard about who you plan to show it too There are two major annoyances in the film. One is that since it is Japanese, they blur out things that would be perfectly OK in an American movie. The other is that a microphone and a stage-hand are visible in a mirror during a fairly long scene, and they aren't hard to spot either. They must not have had enough budget to reshoot that terrible mistake.
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Summary: miike at his brutally best
Review: make no mistake, takashi miike does not hold back. but unlike his american and european counterparts (if such a thing could exist), miike's cinema is not about shock for the sake it as an exploitative device. he is a filmmaker who uses violence and taboo themes to get to the heart of the human condition. in 'visitor q', his most stripped down film, it is the examination of the family unit which miike has focused his lens on. the use of DV video makes it more startling, giving the viewer the sense that they are watching something more intimate as per home video or even pornography. but this is not pornography, it's a close dissection of human weakness, hope, strength, and the most startling of all - love. i'm a bit dismayed that many miike affectionados seem to relegate him as a genre director. miike uses the genre a vehicle for more subversive means and perhaps no other film in his cadre of work more exemplifies this than 'visitor q'. it is shocking and not for the faint of heart but if you stick with it to the end you will be thoroughly rewarded.
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Summary: Inspiring Family Meltdown Masterpiece
Review: Man, they do not come around that often and here Miike Takashi delivers on a fine slice of DV filmmaking that can make its counterpart, American Beauty, look like a walk in the park. Obviously shot for the DVD market on a DV camera, this film has style and a whooping ending to boot, although the eastern type storytelling make put off many, not to mention the shock cinema value with very many blatantly upsetting scenes that never really falter from being classy horror-art... and it is... ALL OF IT!
Although terribly slow for most who will view a foreign film for the first time, it is well worth it after the first milk scene and after experiencing that jaw dropper you will be hurtled into an amazing assault on your taboo while conjuring up scenes of absolutely brilliant originality. The `dead can get wet' mystery of life scene is probably one of the most dementedly innovative surprises that hits you like a gong from the end sequence in 2001. There are many moments in the movie that will leave your head swirling... you just cannot believe what you are seeing.
The story concerns a dysfunctional family, a farther who sleeps with his daughter, has a spiralling downward career as a video reporter, get things done to him on video by criminals, has an abused son who tortures his smack-addicted mother, a bruised and battered woman who turns tricks for a few quid on the side. A stranger with a brick shows up and turns the family upside down, reaching gruesome climatically consequences that have a twist on the nuclear family. The further away from reality it gets the closer we are to home.
Manic, but thoroughly a mastermind at work, Miike Takashi has some great films to boot. This one, Dead or Alive, Audition and Ichi the Killer are absolute musts. If you want to see something totally new (and you will), have the patients to allow a little eastern slow-mo into your life and are prepared to see some things truly defying belief then Visitor Q will deliver.
To be honest I cannot praise this gem enough. It is a horror movie phenomenon and certainly has a place in my top 10 now. Wow is not enough for it.
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