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Visitor Q Director: Takashi Miike Number of Items: 1 Format: Color Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Media Blasters, Inc Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2002-11-26 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 50 Average rating: 4.0 "What the %$#^@#" Well, I thought I knew what to expect after viewing my first few movies by this director, but little did I know....This is just weird, but wonderful! I love watching a movie and never having the slightest clue what could be coming around the next corner. I highly recommend this movie and any others by Miike, but if you are like me, one or two will not be enough. I find myself searching every web site and store looking for all of his movies...Happy hunting!! "One of the most metaphorical works of Takashi Miike." One of the most metaphorical works of Takashi Miike. Is not only about the Japan everybody knows but nobody talks; its also about the concept of modern society itself. Amazingly disturber. "WELL... I DON'T KNOW" I 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 japanise 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 japanise 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. "Not for everyone" If you are presently a fan of Takashi Miike then by all means you must see this movie. It features a damned family that is visited by one calamity after the next. Black humor and utter perversion comprise most of this films content and it moves very quickly and never ceases for a moment to entertain. Thank god for Japanese cencorship laws blurring "junk" too, as without that this movie could truly have crossed every line imaginable and would have been even more difficult to watch. "you always hurt the ones you love" Visitor Q opens with a question: "Have you ever done it with your dad?" With this jarring question in the viewer's mind, the films fades into a lovely scene depicting the protagonist Yamazaki Kiyoshi in bed with his estranged daughter Miki, who is constantly taking digital photos, inside a love hotel. Supposedly asking Miki such questions for his reportage on "the youth today," Kiyoshi continuously states that what he is doing is wrong, but he soon has sex with his daughter with full gusto. However, Kiyoshi climaxes a little too soon so Miki calls him an early bird. Kiyoshi then pays his daughter only 70,000 yen of the 100,000-yen she requested. With such a loving relationship established between father and daughter, one wonders, "So, what is the rest of the family like? Although they are not having sex with each other, the relationship between Kiyoshi's wife Keiko and his son Takuya is also quite odd. The victim of ruthless bullying, Takuya's sole outlet seems to be beating his mother. While it is horrible for one to even think of hitting ones mother, especially in a society where filial piety is a chief virtue, Takuya takes things to the extreme. He has a collection of canes and carpet beaters that he uses to beat his mother. Far from defending herself, Keiko only asks that Takuya to not strike her face. In order to seek solace from her tormenter, Keiko uses heroin and in order to buy her heroin Keiko prostitutes herself. Like mother like daughter. This is the realm of the Yamazaki family. There seems to be little hope for the family, however, one day, a mysterious visitor clonks Kiyoshi on the head with a large rock and subsequently moves in with the family. Similar to Matsuda Yusaku's character Yoshimoto in Morita Yoshimitsu's Family Game (1983), the visitor interacts with each member of the family and "helps" each of them rediscover parts of themselves that they have lost. You will definitely not forget how he helps Keiko rediscover her femininity and maternal instincts! I first watched this film around eight months ago and because of the film's shock value I was unable really to put my thoughts on "paper," but having watched it again and having some critical pieces concerning the film, I can see how social criticism plays a part in the film. However, due to its graphic nature this film is definitely not for everyone. The violence depicted towards women is quite extreme.