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Visitor Q (US Version) DVD Region 1

Watanabe Kazushi (Actor) | Endo Kenichi (Actor) | Ikko Suzuki (Actor) | Jun Muto (Actor)
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Visitor Q (US Version)
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Customer Rating: Customer Review Rated Bad 3 - 3.5 out of 10 (2)

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An assailant (Watanabe Kazushi) cracks Kiyoshi (Kenichi Endo) on the head with a rock. The victim is the patriarch of a depraved family and this act of violence mysteriously enables the stranger to enter their unhappy home. Dysfunctional does not even begin to describe this family unit which consists of a prostitute daughter (Fujiko) who turns incestuous tricks, a son (Jun Moto) who viciously beats a junky mother (Shungiku Uchida) and the father who videotapes all the unsavory behavior in hopes of revitalizing his television production career with a reality program he'd like to call True Bullying. Their visitor tightens the family bonds through truly unusual methods as he videotapes a murder and guides Keiko to excessively lactating an apparently healing breast milk. Takashi Miike's (AUDITION) familial portrait captures a disturbed household that reaches surreal levels of depravity. The unsettling film, shot on digital video, is laced with dark humor and haunting, shocking imagery. The film builds to a final image that can be seen as both transcendent and immoral.

"[O]utrageous..." - James, Bell (American Character Actor), Sight and Sound, 07/01/2004

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Product Title: Visitor Q (US Version) Visitor Q (US Version) Visitor Q (US Version) Visitor Q (US Version) Visitor Q (US Version)
Artist Name(s): Watanabe Kazushi (Actor) | Endo Kenichi (Actor) | Ikko Suzuki (Actor) | Jun Muto (Actor) | Ito Hideaki (Actor) | Kobayashi Akira (Actor) | Hisanori Endo (Actor) | Susumu Endo Watanabe Kazushi (Actor) | 遠藤憲一 (Actor) | Ikko Suzuki (Actor) | Jun Muto (Actor) | 伊藤英明 (Actor) | 小林旭 (Actor) | Hisanori Endo (Actor) | Susumu Endo Watanabe Kazushi (Actor) | 远藤宪一 (Actor) | Ikko Suzuki (Actor) | Jun Muto (Actor) | 伊藤英明 (Actor) | 小林旭 (Actor) | Hisanori Endo (Actor) | Susumu Endo 渡辺一志 (Actor) | 遠藤憲一 (Actor) | Ikko Suzuki (Actor) | Jun Muto (Actor) | 伊藤英明 (Actor) | 小林旭 (Actor) | Hisanori Endo (Actor) | Susumu Endo Watanabe Kazushi (Actor) | Endo Kenichi (Actor) | Ikko Suzuki (Actor) | Jun Muto (Actor) | Ito Hideaki (Actor) | Kobayashi Akira (Actor) | Hisanori Endo (Actor) | Susumu Endo
Director: Miike Takashi 三池崇史 Miike Takashi 三池崇史 Miike Takashi
Producer: Kobayashi Akira | arakawa reiko | Seiichiro Nakajima | Susumu Endo 小林旭 | arakawa reiko | Seiichiro Nakajima | Susumu Endo 小林旭 | arakawa reiko | Seiichiro Nakajima | Susumu Endo 小林旭 | 荒川 れいこ 他 | Seiichiro Nakajima | Susumu Endo Kobayashi Akira | arakawa reiko | Seiichiro Nakajima | Susumu Endo
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Release Date: 2002-11-26
UPC Code: 631595021684
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Country of Origin: Japan
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio: Letterboxed
Color Information: Color
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating: Not Rated
Publisher: Media Blasters
Package Weight: 108 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1004415691

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Director: Takashi Miike

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Letterbox - 1.85
Interactive Features:
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Customer Review of "Visitor Q (US Version)"

Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 3 - 3.5 out of 10 (2)

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June 23, 2007

why did Miike make this film? Customer Review Rated Bad 2 - 2 out of 10
I am surprised I can actually finished watching this movie. I am not a big fan of Takashi Miike but I really like "Audition" and "The Box" (from Three ... Extremes). There is really nothing new in this film. Old tricks for the sake of making you sick. The question in my mind is, why did Miike make this film? If you are looking for a classy one like "Audition" or "The Box", avoid.
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February 19, 2007

WELL... I DON'T KNOW Customer Review Rated Bad 5 - 5 out of 10
rented this film in hope Miike would shock me. I like shocking movies and like to be shocked. Well, this is not the most shocking flick ever, not even in "shocking top 10", although I reached my goal - I was rather impressed but not terrified. If you just want to see it as one of the "taboo-breaking", exploitative movies - go ahead, it's exactly one of them. If you want to find some deeper meaning - it's also one of those with deeper meaning. Entertainment and philosophy - two in one.
Seems like an average japanese family where:
Father copulates with his own daughter
Mother is a drug addict
Son beats his mother
Daughter works as a hooker
Some stranger comes to live in their house and many odd things happen: father shoots on camcorder his son being bullied by school-mates, mother and the stranger find pleasure in her enormous lactation, in the end everyone takes his own part in an act of necrophilia and so on...
It all may seem gross and disgusting but at the same time it's funny. It's absurd as life itself, it's about modern family and loneliness. Well, maybe if Todd Solondz were japanese he'd made such a film.
So it's not that bad - everyone will find something to his own taste, but also not that good - "Irreversible" or "Audition" are more gross and there are movies that are far more metaphysical.
Proceed at your own risk.
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