Fujiko, Ikko Suzuki, Jun Muto

The Yamazaki family is seriously dysfunctional. Dad was a TV reporter until he got fired for airing footage of his own humiliation by a group of street-toughs. He's trying to win his job back by secre...( read more  read more... )tly filming the high-school bullies who daily beat up his son Takuya. Takuya takes out his frustrations on Mum by beating her up when he gets home (No, not my face! Don't hit my face!), and she gets into heroin to assuage her pain. Meanwhile daughter Miki has left home to become a hooker. But everything begins to change the night Dad comes home with a mysterious stranger.

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R, 1 hr. 24 min.

Directed by: Takashi Miike

Release Date: March 17, 2002

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DVD Release Date: November 26, 2002

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  • September 24, 2009
    I've wanted to see this film for a long time, now I don't know why I bothered. I generally find Miike's films brilliant (The Bird People in China, Audition), Badass (Dead or Alive), grotesquely entertaining (Ichi the Killer), or just completely fubar (Gozu). VISITOR Q is Miike in...( read more) his worst form; being disturbing, creepy, and artsy-fartsy for no reason while not showcasing any worthwhile characters, successful dark humor, or entertainment value.

    In my opinion, VISITOR Q is a completely worthless film. I know everybody has their own opinion, but I just can't see how anyone can like this one.
  • September 14, 2009
    This is probably Takashi Miike's sickest film so far, and that's really saying something! See it to believe it!!
  • December 15, 2008
    Burdened as it is with serious faults, Visitor Q is not a masterpiece, but it is so strange and disturbing that it does come close to such greatness...in the Pink Flamingos sense
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  • August 15, 2008
    Most fucked up movie and most fucked up fictional family I've seen yet. Anything extremely taboo is stacked together like a sandwich. Some incest, lactation fetish, forced defecation, rape with a microphone, impromptu murder, regular beatings, and corpsefucking combines with the ...( read more)theme of family values and the cycle of violence and bullying. I defy you to watch this entire movie.

    "So Fucked Up" highlight: corpse voids itself of feces whilst father character rapes it and then the family helps dad get his wee wee out of his dead colleague
  • August 3, 2008
    Incest. Necrophilia. Kid abusing mother. Lactating woman. Rape. Murder. Bullying. A nameless visitor.

    What a fuckin' mess. Takashi Miike is at it again with a disturbing, provocative and to be honest... an awful film. Several fetishes are portrayed here, so it will probably fin...( read more)d its audience.

    Filmed with a handheld camera and the mic seen in several occasions, it gives you this documentary feeling. A doc of totally fucked up people.

    Oh yes, and did I mention that it ends up as a love story, husband finds his wife again (after she has detached him from a corpse and cut her in pieces) and the daughter her mother. And both end up sucking her breasts for milk... WTF? Rebirth? A new beginning for people?

    If Miikes intention was to gross people out, he manages to do it well. But a good film it is not. Forgettable? Definitely not.

    Miike is a director who makes excellent films (Audition, Ichi the killer) but his main problem is that he makes too many films in a year. 3-6 films as an average? All of 'em can't be good. But his name you definitely woun't forget...
  • November 18, 2009
    Quite a good and sick dark horror comedy from Takashi Miike is quite a chore to sit through but does have some laughs and stomach churning stuff.
  • October 28, 2009
    This film is seriously strange. Don“t watch this movie if you are easily shocked or offended.
  • October 12, 2009
    A few interesting moments aside it's a boring shockfest, Watch Pasolini's Teorema instead, I even liked Ozon's Sitcom slightly better than this
  • September 24, 2009
    esta mirenla bajo su propio riesgo, el morbo es super extremo, no seran los mismos despues de ver esto.
  • September 11, 2009
    Some thoughts...

    Visitor Q is a very special film. Some people find it incredibly disturbing, and some other people find it hilarious. I find it hilarious. I almost laughed! It's unbelievable how depraved the human mind can be, and this little film puts it right to the screen....( read more) The opening scene gives a clear idea of how the movie will be the following 75 minutes. Like surrealistic Miike films (such as Gozu), this film gets "crazier" as the minutes pass by. The acting is acceptable and so is the script. But what I trully loved about this film is that the camera does never hesitate and it deals with very disturbing thematic material in a brutal, awesone and hilarous way.

    90/100

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May 13, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

The scandalous pinnacle of [Miike's] extreme cinema canon. full review

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