Visitor Q
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Visitor Q |
| Original title | ビ ジ タ ー Q |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Takashi Miike |
| script | Itaru Era |
| production |
Reiko Arakawa , Seiichiro Kobayashi , Susumu Nakajima |
| music | Kōji Endō |
| camera | Hideo Yamamoto |
| cut | Yasushi Shimamura |
| occupation | |
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Visitor Q ( Japanese ビ ジ タ ー Q , bijitā Q ) is a controversial feature film by director Takashi Miike from 2001 about a troubled family who receives a visit from a stranger.
The film is the sixth and last part of the so-called "Love Cinema" series, a low-budget direct-to-video production , called Original Video (OV for short) or V-Cinema in Japan , with six directors each one very much cheaply produced film. In contrast to western video productions, OV films show a significantly higher level of quality; independent filmmakers are granted all kinds of artistic freedom, provided that the budget is not exceeded and stylistic devices are included that enable commercial video exploitation. The content of the six-part Love Cinema series was tied to the motif of "pure love".
The production costs for the entire series were less than half a million euros, and all directors received the same budget for their productions. Visitor Q had around seven million yen available. Miike's production was the director's third film to be shown in theaters in Germany. The German premiere was on July 21, 2001 in “Focus Asia” at the Munich Fantasy Film Festival . The official theatrical release in Germany was September 6, 2001.
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The film is about the Yamazaki family who are visited by an unnamed stranger, the eponymous “Visitor Q”. Every family member has their own problems: their daughter Miki works as a prostitute far away from the family and sleeps with her father Kiyoshi, an unsuccessful television journalist. Hero-addicted mother Keiko is beaten up by her son Takuya, who in turn is bullied by classmates. When Kiyoshi is knocked down on the way home, he brings the attacker home with him, where he initially looks at family life without being involved, but gradually exerts increasing influence on the individual members.
Awards
- Fantasia Festival
- 2001: Prize winner in the category “Best Asian Film” for Takashi Miike
- Japanese Professional Movie Awards
- 2002: Award winner in the “Best Director” category for Takashi Miike
- Sweden Fantastic Film Festival
- 2001: Honorable mention ( honorable mention ) for Takashi Miike
Reviews
“Complex reflection on the structure of violence in everyday thinking. Determined by drastic taboos, the film, which is as complex as it is unsettling, ultimately never slips into an end in itself. In the end, hope and redemption can only be found in turning away from realism and in exaggerating genre images. "
“Like hardly any other director at the moment, Takashi Miike brings the B-movie and the Arthaus film into harmony so compellingly. That gives his material that strange touch; You can never be sure whether ambitious film craft or the big scam will be shown here. Both are possible and intended - and Miike has produced both in roughly equal parts with his astonishing oeuvre. "
Web links
- Visitor Q in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Visitor Q in the online film database
- Visitor Q at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ rapideyemovies.de ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ business. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Visitor Q in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ The Trash Master of Ceremonies . taz , September 6, 2001 (accessed June 11, 2015)
