Visitor Q

Visitor Q

The only thing stranger than this family is... Visitor Q.

Rating

4.5 (1)

Release Date

3/17/2001

Runtime

84 mins

Overview

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

$60,400

Revenue

-

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A deliberately provocative provocation that uses extreme family dysfunction and transgressive imagery as a vehicle for an unexpectedly tender meditation on healing and connection. Takashi Miike's notorious shock comedy finds grace amid deliberate depravity.

Mood

AbsurdUnsettling

Themes

FamilyComing apartRedemption

Tone

Satirical

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Sexual violenceSexual contentChild endangermentAddictionGraphic violence

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

disgusting, perverted yet funny and captivating to watch.
while a lot of people may say its nothing but weird shit, under all that is a tale of a broken family stuck in violence and sex.

while it may not be entirely right for ME to say this as a 17 year old....but being sexual is very exhausting, violence is exhausting and this movie understands that. takashi miike is not interested in showing that or the concept of a dysfunctional family in a light way. we have to come to terms with the fact that some families are actually like this.
what i find most interesting is the way the film uses incest, the beatings and many other things to show that dysfunctionality and family under pressure in the modern day by suprisingly captalism.
a friend said that about this film and it makes sense imo sadly enough.

(watch my feature film https://boxd.it/cQ1mBp )

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