Just watched Sukiyaki Western Django
Sukiyaki Western: Django (Sukiyaki Uesutan Jango) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiyaki_Western_Django) is a 2007 Japanese film by Takashi Mike. The title of this English language western refers to the Japanese dish, sukiyaki, as well as Sergio Corbucci's spaghetti western film, Django. It also takes inspiration from the "Man with No Name" stock character variously used in the spaghetti western genre but most notably in Akira Kurosawa's jidaigeki film Yojimbo and Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy.
Inspired by the historical rivalry between the Genji and Heike clans, which ushered in the era of samurai dominance in Japanese history, Sukiyaki Western Django is set "a few hundred years after the Genpei War" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genpei_War). The Genji (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_clan) and Heike (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taira_clan) gangs face off in a town named Yuta in Nevada, while a deadly gunman comes into town to help a prostitute get revenge on the warring gangs. The film contains numerous references both to the historical Genpei War and to the Wars of the Roses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses), as well as the films Yojimbo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojimbo_(film)) and Django (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(film)).
The stunning, intense beauty of the very Western setting and the spaghetti western-style plot combine with the Japanese story to produce an absolutely surreal production that sweeps the viewer up in its fractal folds and carries him or her off into a fairyland of violent glory. Quentin Tarantino stars as Ringo, who introduces the story even as he shoots down the bravos who have come to kill him. With a painted backdrop of Mt. Fuji in slow eruption and a molten blue sky over a golden desert lit by a brilliant gold-orange setting Sun behind him, Tarantino adds the final Dali-esque touch to a film already overwhelming in its magnificent weirdness. I loved it. I'll watch it again -- something I rarely do with movies. This one is to be savored, not once, but again and again and again.