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ビジターQ

Directed by Takashi Miike

Synopsis

The only thing stranger than this family is... Visitor Q.

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.

Cast

Ken'ichi Endô Shungicu Uchida Kazushi Watanabe Jun Mutô Fujiko Shôko Nakahara Ikko Suzuki

Director Director

Takashi Miike

Producers Producers

Reiko Arakawa Seiichiro Kobayashi Susumu Nakajima

Writer Writer

Itaru Era

Editor Editor

Yasushi Shimamura

Cinematography Cinematography

Hideo Yamamoto

Executive Producers Exec. Producers

Hisanori Endô Akira Saito

Production Design Production Design

Yutaka Uki

Composer Composer

Koji Endo

Sound Sound

Mizuki Ito Yoshiya Obara

Hairstyling Hairstyling

Hiroko Miyata

Studios

CineRocket Trustech Japan Co., Ltd.

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Alternative Titles

Bijitâ Q, ビジターQ, Love Cinema Vol. 6, Bijitā Q, Gość Q, Посетитель Q, האורח קיו, 비지터 Q, 拜访者Q, ครอบครัวโรคจิต

Genres

Comedy Horror Drama Thriller

Themes

Intense violence and sexual transgression Crude humor and satire Challenging or sexual themes & twists Graphic violence and brutal revenge Dreamlike, quirky, and surreal storytelling Fascinating, emotional stories and documentaries Gripping, intense violent crime Show All…

Premiere

21 Jul 2001

• Switzerland Locarno Film Festival

21 Sep 2001

• USAR

Theatrical

17 Mar 2001

• France16

Canada

21 Jul 2001

• Premiere Fantasia Film Festival

France

23 Oct 2002

• Theatrical16

Japan

17 Mar 2001

• TheatricalR-18

Sweden

21 Sep 2001

• Premiere Lund Fantastisk Film Festival

Switzerland

09 Aug 2001

• Premiere Locarno Film Festival

USA

26 Nov 2002

• Theatrical limitedR

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  Review by Jordan Salfity ★★★★ 5

  I pray that my kids don’t go down the rabbit hole I did with films.

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  Review by YI JIAN ★★★★½ 9

  "If it wasn't for this fearless soul (Miike), who else would dare make a film as bizzare as Gozu? As violent as Ichi the Killer? As fucked up as Visitor Q? I confess that I will never watch the three films mentioned above. Never. Not in this life. I'm not crazy."

  Sorry, mom. Sorry, dad. Sorry, God.

  Sorry, me from 3 months ago.

  Sorry, my second grade teachers.

  Sorry, artists of this world.

  I've found love, in the most disturbing place. I frowned, I cried, I laughed, I flinched in disgust, but most importantly, I've fell head over heels for Takashi Miike and Visitor Q. Sorry, mom. Sorry, dad. Sorry, God. I just had the most wonderful evening. I watched…

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  Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ 23

  Incest. Heroin addiction. Bullying. Sadomasochism. Prostitution. Domestic abuse. Rape. Murder. Necrophilia. Visitor Q features all this but is the story of just one family. Director Takashi Miike rarely plays thing safe and so Visitor Q is provocative, transgressive, and repulsive. It opens like Japanese incest porn and yet ultimately that is the tamer side of the film. This is a completely non-conformist movie. The film is shot in a 4:3 camcorder style, utilising the digital video aesthetic to give an incongruous realism to the very unconventional events. The story is odd and sketch-like, with the film feeling almost plotless in its lack of motivations, morals, and reasoning.

  The late 1990s and early 2000s were some of the darkest and most…

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  Review by Bella ½ 1

  I hate it.

  My mom walked into my room and now I’m grounded for 3 months.

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  Review by Willow Maclay ★★★½

  When people say "Takashi Miike is crazy" they usually reach towards this movie as an example, but there's always a method to whatever Miike is directing. In the case of Visitor Q he is satirizing the family drama by way of transgressions. These images of lactation, necrophilia and physical abuse are made darkly comedic through an understanding of supposed family dynamic. I find a lot of this movie rather sweet, which is the opposite of that on paper, but Miike finds something resembling a love sincere in the oedipal and the deranged. That's the thing about Takashi Miike he puts his characters through hell from time to time, but all of his characters have a baseline where he sees them…

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine 6

  ACTION! - KILLER MIIKE

  I honestly don’t know how to rate this. It definitely qualifies as a horror film; there’s definitely some horror and comedy. Certainly very erotic. But it's all so odd. Nothing that Miike hasn’t done before. The whole found footage element, especially for its time when it wasn’t done to exhaustion, was kind of a fresh spin. Performances are great considering the direction they were all given. You got woman milking, spreading it all over the floor as they pee or something. You got necrophilia. Something about the whole killer sort of reminded me of The House that Jack Built. Kind of experimental in its approach to storytelling.

  All in all, I don’t know what to say…

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  Review by anjy ★ 8

  this is actually traumatising, i cried throughout a lot of it. mubi describes the family as dysfunctional. there’s a difference between dysfunctional and completely fucked.

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  Review by Harvey🎅🎁🎄 ★ 3

  A-Z Effedupmovies (V)

  I can’t believe this is my first Takashi Miike film considering how much I like slightly fucked up films and that Love Exposure is my 4th favourite. 

  And unfortunately I probably couldn’t of chose a worse starter film for myself;I normally like films that questions your perception of normality, normalcy and the human condition but this just wasn’t it for me. The narrative felt a little disjointed at times, and the characters were far too caricature-like for me. Maybe it’s because I had far too many exceptions for this film but I just didn’t like it at all. Maybe I’m missing something completely, I hope The Wailing doesn’t disappoint cause I’ve got even higher hopes for that.

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★½ 6

  I don't even know.

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★★ 3

  Sometimes when bad thing happens it's actually a blessing in disguise! In this case it is the guy (Visitor Q) whom just pummeled you in the head with a rock!

  If he sounds strange you should meet the family he has singled out for an intervention! Labeling them as a dysfunctional family would be a serious understatement!

  An odd social commentary with a big heart disguised as just another bizarre and perverse Takashi Miike film!

  If you don't see the beauty in this film than you missed the whole point!

  Recommended for the more adventurous spirits amongst us! Not for the casual movie goer!________________________________________________________________________________________________Recommended by Neue via my list "Movie Request Hotline" Thank You so much Neue for a Fantastic Film to Review!________________________________________________________________________________________________

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  Review by Gyaru In Chains ★★★★½ 4

  I was afraid this would suck.

  Fortunately, it squirts.

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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★½ 9

  Takashi Miike delivers another good ol fashioned comedy made for the whole family. Such a heartwarming story filled with incest, rape, necrophilia, prostitution, murder, lactophilia, bullying and domestic abuse. Classic family hijinks!

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