Monday, June 6, 2011

Visitor Q (2001, Takashi Miike)

This is a weird one, even for Takashi Miike. "Visitor Q" is a slow, yet sleazy dark comedy that takes almost every taboo available and pushes it to the extreme... Anyone even marginally familiar with Miike's body of work should know I'm just stating the obvious.

The film is basically about a highly dysfunctional family with a father/husband failing to satisfy his co-worker/prostitute (sexually), a son who beats his mother, a mother who works as a hooker to support her drug addiction and then a nameless stranger who is invited to stay with the family after attacking the husband with a rock. As new misfortune enters their chaotic home life - such as the son being ruthlessly bullied by schoolmates who ignite fireworks through their windows and the husband accidentally murdering a woman and getting his dick caught in her rigor-cunt - the visitor finds ways to shift their personalities and bring them together (it's not as sweet as it may sound)...

My synopsis is pretty crummy, I know, but "Visitor Q" is a tough one to make sense of. From the looks of it, it was shot on digital cameras and utilized very minimal budgetary recompense. I'd definitely go as far as to call this Takashi Miike's most disturbing film despite the scattered hints at THE darkest of comedy, all of which is pretty much off-set by the overall sleaziness of the flick. Though, I guess I did find the nipple squirting pretty funny.

"Visitor Q" is certainly one that fans of oddball Jap-sploitation will get into...

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