Sukiyaki Western Django

Could this be revenge for Hollywood's godawful Memoirs of a Geisha?

Sukiyaki Western Django is being released in Japan this September. I must see this movie.  Genji vs. Heike in a balls-to-the-wall shoot-it-up Wild West extravaganza!  And it's in English.  Kinda.  Not all the actors could speak English, so they got a dialect coach out from Hollywood to teach it to them phonetically.  Which might explain the misuse of the word "Ain't" in the second trailer.  Quentin Tarentino, who is always up for a good time, has a small guest-starring role.  One can only hope that he's speaking Japanese.

The director is Miike Takashi, best known in America for ultra-violent films like Ichi the Killer and Audition.  He has, however, made other films in different genres, so Sukiyaki Western Django may not be a splatterlicious gore-fest, although odds are good there will be a lot of gunslinging because, duh, it's a western.

That enka theme song looks to be a classic, although to my mind nothing can match Frankie Laine's rendition of Blazing Saddles.  (Then again, that theme song is so funny because Mel Brooks forgot to tell Mr. Laine that the movie was a spoof.)

There are two trailers out on Youtube for Sukiyaki Western Django: here and here.  One can only hope that Tarentino uses his considerable influence to have the movie released here in America.

PS: Looks like my boy Sakai Masato is in it, albeit in a minor role.