Director: Takashi Miike Genre: Action, Western
Release Date: August 29, 2008 (U.S.)
Duration: 121 minutes
Cast: Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato, Yusuke Iseya, Masanobu Ando, Takaaki Ishibashi
Overview: Maverick Japanese director Takashi Miike re-teams with a lot of time writing partner Masa Nakamura (Andromedia, the Bird People in China) for this Western musical inspired by the classic Sergio Corbucci violent Django 1966. It was hundreds of years after the Battle of Dannoura, however, the Genji and Heiki remain feudal clans. In this poor mountain town, is rumoured to be a great treasure trove. Genji banda leader Yoshitsune is confident that his white dress of the warriors will find the treasure first, but Kiyomori and his red dress-Heike banda not going to stand empty handed. When a mysterious lone gunman with an incredibly fast trigger finger rolls in the city, everyone wondered banda to join him. As a betrayal, deceit and murder in cold blood become commonplace, the silence of the once-quiet mountain town is broken by the echo of drilling and shooting into the air becomes thick with the smell of death.
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