Sukiyaki Western: Django

is a 2007 Japan film by Takashi Miike. The English language Western is inspired by Sergio Corbucci's "Spaghetti Western" Django, as well as the legions of copycats and ripoffs. It has numerous references to that movie, including use of the Luis Bacalov theme song, but tells a completely different story, bearing more direct resemblance to Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo or Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars. Set a few hundred years after the Genpei War, the Minamoto and Taira gangs face off in a town named Yuta, while a deadly gunman comes to the aid of the townsfolk. On June 8, 2007, a manga adaptation by Kotobuki Shiriagari began serialization on Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior. When Sukiyaki Western Django premiered as part of the "Midnight Madness" program at the Toronto International Film Festival, it received mixed reviews. Cam Lindsay of Exclaim! magazine wrote admiringly: On the other end of the spectrum, Will Sloan of Inside Toronto wrote: full article at wikipedia