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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 "....Insane........." Visitor Q is sick, but buy far one of the coolest movies i've ever seen to warn you though its a bit confusion but if you liked 'Audition' i think you'll like this. everyone i know did "...." 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. "just watch it" 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! "Pure unadulterated genius" While the argument that this film's only aim is to achieve controversy is pursuasive, it is by no means conclusive. Yes, it has necrophilia, incest, prostitution and intense violence, but to talk only about these things reduces the film to a petty little gratuitous teenage-angst rant. Or, as one reviewer has claimed, this is shock value without purpose, place, or reason is somewhat naive. The film is a work of genius. No question about it. Takashi Miike displays the carnivalesque workings of the body to the full. Where others have chosen to shy away, Miike explores every crevice of the grotesque, literally dissecting it to its corporeal elements to discover just exactly where are heads are at. The dead body is central to the film. Typical outdated stereotypes of the human mind, and indeed of Japan, are discarded along with the decaying flesh. Namely, preoccupations with politeness, taste, manners, and rational, institutional values are laughed at and abused. These things, along with sexual life, eating, drinking, and defecation have radically changed their meaning. The film is made in a time where Japan and its people are questioning and trying to define themselves. The warm closed insular security of the Japanese economic womb has been violently ruptured. Jobs and moral values are no longer stable in modern Japan. Just exactly does it mean to be Japanese? A number of western influences confuse the cultural collage that is Japan in a time where not many things are stable. Boundaries that did exist are no longer there. Being polite, reserved and rational with a nice institution to support you is no longer Japan. And this is where Miike comes in. Miike explores boundaries and then seeks to subvert them. Sexual boundaries do not exist. One is free to have sex with one's daughter or drink the breast-milk from your wife because there is no where to stop when there are no borders. By pushing the boundaries and bringing them to the fore, Miike questions what exactly makes us tick. Where are we when there is no one to define us? We may have the trappings of civilized beings, but we are after all bestial. The home video camera work gives the film a haunting sense of reality and naturalness to what was previously considered to be unnatural. The dark sense of humour permeating through this real texture transcends this film from generic classification. It is a grotesque carnivalesque romp mocking the polite film establishment, reality TV and society and repressive stereo types. It questions why we find such interest in watching these things, and most disturbingly, what should we feel when we watch them. "Wow. . . ." Truly a genius . . . Very funny movie, what more can i say?!?