Visitor Q, Japan 2000


Director Takashi Miike is a controversial fellow. His movies are all different, although the violent and provocative scenes are always present. This is a story of really dysfunctional family: a father who rapes his daughter, the mother who is high on drugs and prostitutes herself during the day, the son who makes up every possible excuse to beat her mother up with a whip. What else can I say? If this is not dysfunctional enough for you, then I don’t know what it is. Some elements of Miike’s works are visible, like dialogues with few words, lack of score music, the sound of drums in crucial scenes, and his obsession with milk from women’s breasts! Yes, you read correctly, but you should see it to believe it. The movie keeps you gasping and guessing until the end, and all the while I was thinking “only in Japan can anybody shoot these kinds of films” Good for them.