Visitor Q (2001)

Original title

ビジターQ

Directed by

Takashi Miike

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 548 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mysterious young man arrives at a dysfunctional family's home. He interacts with each family member leading to bizarre and transformative encounters.

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What happens

Visitor Q (ビジターＱ, Bijitā Kyū) is a 2001 Japanese erotic black comedy-horror film directed by Takashi Miike. It was filmed as the sixth and final part of the Love Cinema series consisting of six straight-to-video releases by independent filmmakers via a brief but exclusive run at the minuscule Shimokitazawa cinema in Tokyo. The six films were conceived as low budget exercises to explore the benefits afforded by the low-cost digital video medium such as the increased mobility of the camera and the low-lighting conditions available to the filmmakers. Visitor Q often replicates the style of documentary footage and home movies, which invokes a sense of realism that contradicts the film's more bizarre elements and black comedy. The film's plot is often compared to Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema, in which a strange visitor to a wealthy family seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter, and finally the father, before leaving a few days after, subsequently changing their lives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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