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DVD ~ Ken'ichi Endô
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  • Actors: Ken'ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Jun Mutô, Fujiko
  • Directors: Takashi Miike
  • Writers: Itaru Era
  • Producers: Akira Saitô, Hisanori Endô, Reiko Arakawa, Seiichiro Kobayashi, Susumu Nakajima
  • Format: Full Screen, PAL
  • Language Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Tartan Video
  • DVD Release Date: 24 May 2004
  • Run Time: 86 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0001IMCTS
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20,928 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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 unsavoury behaviour in hopes of revitalising his television production career with a reality programme 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 humour and haunting, shocking imagery. The film builds to a final image that can be seen as both transcendent and immoral.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars THE COVER BLURB DOESNT LIE, 29 April 2006
By KAYSEN (SCOTLAND) - See all my reviews
Being described as deranged makes me interested in a movie, though often I am let down. This movie is the real thing, perhaps the most outrageous movie ever made. Beginning with unnatural sex and continuing with a catalogue of unparalled perversity, Visitor Q will have you watching or turning away in disbelief. A documentary maker and his dysfunctional family interact in increasingly bizarre ways. The films follows the family members through violence to full psychotic breakdown. The narrative is perhaps not the main thing, it is an accumulation of shocking moments, that is filmed in realistic intensity on digital video. Be warned, this may be too much for some viewers, though recommended for the broadminded and fans of extreme asian cinema.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Actors or Prostitutes?, 23 Mar 2006
By nmollo (London) - See all my reviews
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"Visitor Q" is an extraordinary motion picture. At first I was worried by the use of video as it normally seems cheap and crappy but then I noticed the angles that the director was employing and his abundant technique. A framed picture is a protagonist in one scene.

I had to avert my eyes at points. I have never liked needles. MIIKE seems to love them. The use of the hypodermic syringe was used brilliantly in his Motion Picture "Audition". A classic of modern Cinema in my opinion. The creativity in Visitor Q is boundless, slightly sick, I grant you, yet assured and beautifully acted. This is a strong film. The ideas are warped and execution is masterful.

TAKASHI MIIKE is a very talented filmmaker. He bears his soul with a project like "Visitor Q" and that is rare and brave. I mentioned acting earlier and find myself asking, "How far did these actors go?"

History has shown that the first actors were prostitutes. I sometimes wonder at the actors that walk the red carpet and ask, "What has changed?" Actors will do anything a director asks. This cast must have had great faith in their Director and great trust. The acting is faultless. At one point I did make the comparison with another great film "Man Bites Dog" because I found myself laughing at situations that are so real and horrifying. That feeling is strange and I'm not sure I like it.

I cannot criticize this film in anyway. I still feel that the over use of video in Motion Pictures can be cheap and nasty lookin' but "Visitor Q" proves me wrong. Imagination overcomes any limitation.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A whole lotta deadness, 24 Jan 2006
By Andrew Butler "andyb1000000" (The true home of Robin Hood) - See all my reviews
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The wierd and wonderful (if a little disturbed) world of Miike comes to the forfront in this most entertaining of tragic comedies. When i switched this on i did not really know what to expect. All i can say to the uninitiated is to expect the worst times that by ten and the be prepared to laugh and consider why you laughed just a little later.

I must recomend this film as one to watch for the avid viewer of eastern shock. If this film had been made by an american it would not have even made it to DVD. Thank you Takashi Miike for push all of those boundary buttons.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Visitor Q Should Have Stayed At Home
This film is vacuous and pointless. It is odd, to be sure, but carries no merit. It's as though the makers of this film first made a list of sexual perversions and sundry forms of... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Doctor Goa -

5.0 out of 5 stars twisted but i loved it
As soon as the subtitles "have you ever done it with your dad?" appeared on the screen, i did think for a second to turn it off. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Ms. J. D. Penn

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a REAL sick film!
I really honestly thought this film was brilliant. Brutally realistic; and that is what made it for me. Read more
Published 21 months ago by filmfreak26

1.0 out of 5 stars Very poor, and worst of all, boring
Films shouldn't be boring. This one is proof that throwing every taboo you can think of up on screen makes them all passé, and i was yawning indifference well before the end. Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2007 by fps

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Believe The Hype
Don't bother...that is my genuine opinion. Previous reviewers say this film is only for the broadminded...rubbish...it's neither shocking nor new. Read more
Published on 18 Jul 2007 by Pol

1.0 out of 5 stars Spectacularly rubbish
Well what can I say about Visitor Q?
86 minutes of running time + the 4 minutes it took to read the leaflet that accopanied the dvd = 90 minutes of my life I will never get... Read more
Published on 6 Jul 2007 by lynda

3.0 out of 5 stars OK, but not oustanding
It seems every action that would shock an audience was brainstormed by the director and then threaded loosely together by a week plot. Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2006 by Shun Yao

2.0 out of 5 stars TOTALLY WEIRD!
IF STRANGE ASIAN FILMS ARE YOUR CUP OF TEA, THEN THIS IS ONE CUPPA YOU DONT WANT TO MISS. FROM COPULATING WITH CORPSES TO A FATHERS OBSESSION WITH HIS SONS TORMENT AT THE HANDS OF... Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2006

3.0 out of 5 stars TOTALLY WEIRD!
IF STRANGE ASIAN FILMS ARE YOUR CUP OF TEA, THEN THIS IS ONE CUPPA YOU DONT WANT TO MISS OUT ON. FROM COPULATING WITH CORPSES TO A FATHERS OBSESSION WITH FILMING HIS SONS TORMENT... Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2005

2.0 out of 5 stars Lets Get Ourselves Noticed
Loved Audition. Thought this would be gud. Was I Wrong? Hell Yes.

This has to be one of the most pointless films ever. Read more

Published on 27 Dec 2004 by Mr. Z. Riaz

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