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Visitor Q

Original title: Bijitâ Q
  • 2001
  • 16 avec avertissement
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
18K
YOUR RATING
Visitor Q (2001)
Dark ComedySatireComedyDramaHorrorThriller

A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.

  • Director
    • Takashi Miike
  • Writer
    • Itaru Era
  • Stars
    • Ken'ichi Endô
    • Shungiku Uchida
    • Kazushi Watanabe
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    18K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Takashi Miike
    • Writer
      • Itaru Era
    • Stars
      • Ken'ichi Endô
      • Shungiku Uchida
      • Kazushi Watanabe
    • 129User reviews
    • 50Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins total

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    Ken'ichi Endô
    Ken'ichi Endô
    • Kiyoshi Yamazaki…
    Shungiku Uchida
    Shungiku Uchida
    • Keiko Yamazaki…
    Kazushi Watanabe
    Kazushi Watanabe
    • The visitor
    Jun Mutô
    • Takuya Yamazaki…
    Fujiko
    • Miki Yamazaki…
    Shôko Nakahara
    • Asako Murata
    Ikkô Suzuki
    • Sasaoka
    • (as Ikko Suzuki)
    • Director
      • Takashi Miike
    • Writer
      • Itaru Era
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    User reviews129

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    6JoelChamp85

    Portrayed Disturbingly Well

    Following an extremely disfunctional family, who do anything from prostitution to necrophilia, the audience is in for a bit of a shock. Somehow it's decently made and believable thanks to the raw actors performances. I have no idea how someone writes a script like this, gets it funded for production and finds actors to bring it to life. So strange, but far from fantasy.
    8psaygin

    The key is in the movie itself

    Amazing movie playing around with the idea of reality TV, voyeurism and even the nature of reality itself.

    Among all the scenes -- of which there are many many memorable ones -- I thought the one which has the key to the movie is when the father is frantically taping the attack on his house and speaking at the same time and among a frenzy of "reporter-talk" he says,

    "What are we supposed to feel?"

    The key to the movie is, you are never allowed to know what you are supposed to feel. These days, in movies and TV, we are frequently "told" what to feel. Takashi Miike takes this and pulls the carpet from under all of us. he builds his film around the phenomenon of TV/media, emotion-building, exposing, exploiting... Yet keeps this tension through the movie and does not allow us for a moment to settle in our armchairs, does not for one moment let us get into that comfy zone of being told what to feel.

    And hence watching this movie becomes this eerie, stressful process as noted by everyone else. Am i disgusted, indignant, amused, sympathetic, angry, confused? You are never told. You have to go through it on your own. And that is the point.
    VichusSmith

    You know what?

    I rented Visitor Q on DVD because I've seen Takashi Miike's name in the newspapers recently. I wanted to get a taste of what this guy was about before I saw any of his new movies. And you know what? When it comes to the criminally insane, Takashi Miike is KING!

    Visitor Q is not something that i was ready for. At the very base, it is the story of a dysfunctional family trying to come together. But on the surface, I couldn't even begin to explain how INSANE this movie is.

    I know I liked it because I was glued from beginning to end, and I was severely punished and rewarded at the same time.

    This movie probably contains 5-10 fetishes in it, none of them which excite me in the least. However, I gathered that this movie was a huge metaphor for the need of a family to stick together and maintain closeness. Hopefully, you'll be able to hold back your vomit to discover this.

    A definite 7/10
    sandspider1

    I Liked it.

    This was the fourth Miike film I have seen and I have to say like Ichi the Killer, Audition and Dead or Alive I liked it immensly. Like all Miike's films it is disturbing but it wouldn't be a Miike film if it wasn't. Fans of Miike would definitely like it but others may think it is a little too disturbing. the film is very funny but the only downside is that it is alittle short but other than that it is very good. I recommend it.
    bigdaddyo11

    I felt Dirty

    This movie is more messed up than words can explain. It has no real plot, just a lot of graphic crap. This movie must have come from the mind of some daranged psycho because besides having necrophilia, pointless murders, and incest...this movie also combines scenes where the mother repeatedly gets her butt kicked by her family as she injects herself with drugs and then later becomes a chronic lactater. The explicit nature of her forcing herself to lactate left me sick to my stomach and forced to shower immediately after leaving the theatre. To be honest, I felt like I was going to hell for having watched this piece of garbage. There was no part in this movie that wasn't disturbing and if you know of anyone that has seen this movie and "liked it" then immediately stop talking to that person because he/she is most likely psychotic or has tendencies to become one. This is a movie that should never be shown in a public setting again because after the movie showed the theatre stayed quiet with no applause and just blank looks and complete silence during the credits. Luckily, most of the audience had left by then so maybe it was just us.

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Shot in just 7 days.
    • Goofs
      (at around 52 mins) In the dinning room while the father, son, and the guest are having their dinner, the boom mic is totally visible and continues for a while.
    • Quotes

      Kiyoshi Yamazaki: This isn't a mystery of life! It's a shit!

    • Connections
      Follows Tôkyô gomi onna (2000)

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    • Release date
      • October 23, 2002 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Visitor Q+
    • Production companies
      • Alphaville
      • CineRocket
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    • Budget
      • ¥7,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $15,678
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      • 1h 24m(84 min)
    • Color
      • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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