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Ikko Suzuki, Fujiko, Shungiku Uchida, Kenichi Endo, Shôko Nakahara ... see more see more... , Kazushi Watanabe , Jun Muto

Takashi Miike spins this black comedy about the most dysfunctional family on the planet. The film opens with a father (Kenichi Endo) -- a gung-ho TV reporter -- not only paying to have sex with his es... read more read more...tranged prostitute daughter in an anonymous hotel room but also videotaping the act as part of a documentary about "young people today." His son, who is brutalized on a daily basis by schoolyard bullies, beats, whips, and terrorizes his mother (Shungiku Uchida), who is covered with welts and bruises. Mom in turn finds solace in heroin and is not above hooking to pay for the habit. Their lives change for the better when a mysterious stranger (Kazushi Watanabe) cracks the father over the head with a rock and eventually shows them the way to familial happiness. Of course, this way includes multiple murders, necrophilia, and a kitchen full of breast milk. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Takashi Miike

Release Date: March 17, 2002

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DVD Release Date: November 26, 2002

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  • JonathanHutchings
    December 13, 2011
    JonathanHutchings
    It's hard to plainly say I "like" Visitor Q because its subject matter is so disturbing, but viewing it in the long, rich tradition of experimental films coupled with a dash of art-house form, Visitor Q does have its merits. Films of this ilk don't merely exist to shock and appal... read more the viewer (although that's certainly part of it) they are meant to convey a series of themes and messages residing (at times even hiding) underneath the surface--it's just harder to find those messages with the constant barrage of stirring and bizarre imagery. While Visitor Q probably isn't as biting as Pasolini, as purposeful as Jorodowsky, or as satirical as Bunuel, it does speak to the amazing versatility of Taskashi Miike. Here, he plays with form so masterfully. The cross-cutting between these insane scenes; the background imagery; the rare moments of pathos were pathos shouldn't be; the quick tonal shifts, and the seamless transitioning between hand-held and pull-ins to put you, the viewer, in a creepy voyeuristic position, a front row seat to the perverse happenings. That position made me feel very uncomfortable -- and therein lies the point: with our endless fascination with "reality TV," we line up in droves to watch people, family, friends' most intimate occurrences play out in front of us as "entertainment." In the case of celebrity, one can make a great argument that we love watching people crumble in front of our very eyes as well. Where is the line? How much disintegration can we handle, since we, in a way, ask for it? Miike is able to take these ideas (along with a commentary on the "do nothing" state of the modern family, and the fragility of Japanese culture), and integrate them into an experimental, art-house, comedy thriller. In fact, you probably can't lump this film into one genre -- and yet, it plays effortlessly. That's a triumph.

    This film will challenge you in ways few can. Whether you like it or not, it will stimulate you. It takes an astute viewer to see beyond the horrific, but if you like and/or are open to the truly exaggerated, surreal and confrontational, you might get something more out of Visitor Q than meets the eye.
  • axadntpron
    December 8, 2011
    axadntpron
    Typical family dysfunction taken to the nth degree. The fact that it is shot with video makes it all the more disturbing and gives a sense of realism to the truly bizarre. It is one of the only times I felt like I was being a voyeur. Hell, it could be the future of reality televi... read moresion. It is incredibly shocking and that is the point of it. I get it. And I cannot think of a good reason why I would want to watch this again seeing as I had no fun at all watching it this time. If that makes me not a "real movie buff", so be it.
  • WrenchLT
    May 15, 2011
    WrenchLT
    Incest, sodomy, snuff, murder, necrophillia and breast milking are the order of the day in Takeshi Miike's deranged tale about a shattered, dysfunctional family who take in a mysterious stranger who sets about restoring some domestic harmony in his own perverse way. Despite the r... read moreealistic documentary style approach of filming the movie is too outrageous to be taken seriously as there's a very dark humourous tone to it all. You may laugh at times but you'll feel incredibly dirty for doing so. Not for the easily offended.
  • 366weirdmovies
    January 11, 2011
    366weirdmovies
    A bizarrely dysfunctional Japanese family--dad is a TV reporter on a break after being sodomized by interviewees on camera, mom is a heroin addict and part-time hooker, son is bullied at school and beats his mother at home--becomes even stranger and more violent after a mysteriou... read mores stranger shows up in their home. A feeble swipe at satire of reality TV shows can't hide the fact that this is the perverse Takashi Miike's most perverted movie, meant only to shock; it's closer to a well-made fetish porn video than a feature film. Still, it's so well-crafted that it's worth confronting, if you're prepared, or too jaded to care.
  • arashxak
    October 12, 2009
    arashxak
    A few interesting moments aside it's a boring shockfest, Watch Pasolini's Teorema instead, I even liked Ozon's Sitcom slightly better than this
  • YLOWBSTARDreturns
    September 24, 2009
    YLOWBSTARDreturns
    I've wanted to see this film for a long time, now I don't know why I bothered. I generally find Miike's films brilliant (The Bird People in China, Audition), Badass (Dead or Alive), grotesquely entertaining (Ichi the Killer), or just completely fubar (Gozu). VISITOR Q is Miike in... read more his worst form; being disturbing, creepy, and artsy-fartsy for no reason while not showcasing any worthwhile characters, successful dark humor, or entertainment value.

    In my opinion, VISITOR Q is a completely worthless film. I know everybody has their own opinion, but I just can't see how anyone can like this one.
  • SirPant
    September 14, 2009
    SirPant
    This is probably Takashi Miike's sickest film so far, and that's really saying something! See it to believe it!!
  • DrBenway
    December 15, 2008
    DrBenway
    Burdened as it is with serious faults, Visitor Q is not a masterpiece, but it is so strange and disturbing that it does come close to such greatness...in the Pink Flamingos sense
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  • Stinger839
    August 15, 2008
    Stinger839
    Most fucked up movie and most fucked up fictional family I've seen yet. Anything extremely taboo is stacked together like a sandwich. Some incest, lactation fetish, forced defecation, rape with a microphone, impromptu murder, regular beatings, and corpsefucking combines with the ... read moretheme of family values and the cycle of violence and bullying. I defy you to watch this entire movie.

    "So Fucked Up" highlight: corpse voids itself of feces whilst father character rapes it and then the family helps dad get his wee wee out of his dead colleague
  • TheMachinist
    August 3, 2008
    TheMachinist
    Incest. Necrophilia. Kid abusing mother. Lactating woman. Rape. Murder. Bullying. A nameless visitor.

    What a fuckin' mess. Takashi Miike is at it again with a disturbing, provocative and to be honest... an awful film. Several fetishes are portrayed here, so it will probably fin... read mored its audience.

    Filmed with a handheld camera and the mic seen in several occasions, it gives you this documentary feeling. A doc of totally fucked up people.

    Oh yes, and did I mention that it ends up as a love story, husband finds his wife again (after she has detached him from a corpse and cut her in pieces) and the daughter her mother. And both end up sucking her breasts for milk... WTF? Rebirth? A new beginning for people?

    If Miikes intention was to gross people out, he manages to do it well. But a good film it is not. Forgettable? Definitely not.

    Miike is a director who makes excellent films (Audition, Ichi the killer) but his main problem is that he makes too many films in a year. 3-6 films as an average? All of 'em can't be good. But his name you definitely woun't forget...

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Critic Reviews

Michael Atkinson
June 25, 2002
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice

If Herschell Gordon Lewis had adapted Eugene O'Neill, the result still wouldn't out-thicken the muck of Miike's anti-achievement. Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
June 1, 2006
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

It follows along the lines of Pasolini's more cerebral "Teorema" of the seduction of a dysfunctional family by a mysterious stranger. Full Review

Nick Schager
May 13, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

The scandalous pinnacle of [Miike's] extreme cinema canon. Full Review

Brian Mckay
August 7, 2004
Brian Mckay, eFilmCritic.com

1/3 dark (really dark) comedy, 1/3 fetish pornography, and 1/3 just plain "Ewwwww!" Full Review

Anton Bitel
June 11, 2004
Anton Bitel, Movie Gazette

beneath all Miike's over-the-top absurdities lurk real feelings (inadequacy, alienation, repressed sexuality) that simmer away in most 'normal' families. Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
September 7, 2011
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

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April 12, 2011
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Derek Elley
March 26, 2009
Derek Elley, Variety

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June 26, 2002
Chicago Reader

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Emanuel Levy
November 5, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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