Visitor Q (Video 2001)
"Bijitâ Q" (original title)

A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.

Director:

Takashi Miike

Writer:

Itaru Era

Stars:

Ken'ichi Endô, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe

3 wins.

Cast

Cast overview:
Ken'ichi Endô	...	Kiyoshi Yamazaki / Father
Shungiku Uchida	...	Keiko Yamazaki / Mother
Kazushi Watanabe	...	The visitor
Jun Mutô	...	Takuya Yamazaki / Son
Fujiko	...	Miki Yamazaki / Daughter
Shôko Nakahara	...	Asako Murata
Ikko Suzuki	...	Sasaoka

Storyline

A father, who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. "Q", a perfect stranger somehow gets involved and enter the bizzare family who's son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict...

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Plot Keywords:

stranger | sex | prostitute | mysterious stranger | heroin addict | 

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Taglines:

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

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong aberrant sexual and violent content, language and drug use

Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

26 November 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

Visitor Q+

Box Office

Budget:

JPY 7,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Alphaville, CineRocket

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When the visitor first knocks out the the father, you can see the camera in the window as he looks through it in the direction of the camera.

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Quotes

Takuya Yamazaki: [to the Visitor, lying in pool of milk] From today on, I'm going to study. I have entrance exams next year.
The visitor: Is that so?
Takuya Yamazaki: Why did you really come to our home? You came here to destroy it, didn't you? I thought so all along.
[they smile at each other]
Takuya Yamazaki: Thank you.

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Connections

Referenced in Agitator (2001)

User Reviews

Midnite fantasy

Michael Moore once complained that the Japanese are an insular, complicated people. There is a measure of truth in that. But perhaps, as a North American, he is accustomed to loudmouth extroverts who broadcast their every half-cocked thought louder as their audience becomes smaller.

Not so with the Japanese. The social sphere is internalized to a greater extent, without compromising a culture of communication.

How? Bizita Q, for one. The arts have long been an arena of radical deviation from the institutionalized conformity in JPN culture, manga comics and film especially. If nothing else, the artistic license given to filmmakers in Japan makes for emotionally stimulating material that doesn't flinch where most national cinemas do.

As for the film itself, I found it eminently satisfying. I have a taste for the subversive and the fantastic. Which is essentially what this film is, a fantasy. Ever been bullied? What was the most horrible thing you wished would happen to that bully after the fact? Methinks it might resemble something in this film. Japanese schools are notorious for peer abuse, I wouldn't be surprised if the creative staff of this film were acting out imagined scenarios from the safe distance of make believe.