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1	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sukiyaki_western_django.jpg]]
2	''Sukiyaki Western Django'' is a SpaghettiWestern by Creator/TakashiMiike starring almost entirely Japanese people, with almost exclusively English dialogue. There are two exceptions to both: one of each of them is filmmaker Creator/QuentinTarantino, who opens the film in a flashback where he tells the age-old tale about a war, [[EternalRecurrence a recurrence of which he takes part in much later in his life]]. He then throws an egg in the air, shoots 3 people whose blood splatters the backdrop, and then extends one hand to catch the egg to an accompanying slide whistle. It's that kind of movie.
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4	The film takes its plot from the SpaghettiWestern film genre - ''Film/{{Django}}'', among others, hence the name, although significant plot elements come from ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' and its de facto remake ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'': [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiyaki sukiyaki]] is a hot pot or "steamboat" dish often used as a generic label of "Japaneseness".
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7	!!This film contains examples of:
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9	%% * AnachronismStew
10	* ArbitraryGunPower: Sometimes, gun shots will [[BlownAcrossTheRoom blow you across the room]], and some times they'll just be [[ImmuneToBullets annoying]].
11	%% * BarehandedBladeBlock: Played straight, then subverted for laughs.
12	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The two rival clans are defeated and the hero gets (but walks away from) the gold, but nearly every single one of his allies is killed by the end.]]
13	* BlownAcrossTheRoom: The MercyKill on the guy who gets a sword 6 inches in his head blows him out of frame.
14	* DoNotCallMePaul: the leader of the Reds insists on being called Henry, instead of his birth name of Kiyomori, after Theatre/HenryVI, because "in Shakespeare's story, the Reds win".
15	%% * EternalRecurrence: The Genpei War, apparently.
16	* FauxFluency: Filmed with English dialogue by Japanese actors, most of whom don't speak English all that well, or ''at all''. This can lend to its NarmCharm as they struggle through their lines phonetically, usually mangling them all to hell, with many viewers finding it SoBadItsGood.
17	** Creator/QuentinTarantino both has a line in Japanese and a line in English with a sudden dramatic Japanese accent.
18	** "QUUUUUEEEEAM GWWWWAAAAVVYYYYYY!!"
19	%% * FeudingFamilies: Minamoto and Taira.
20	* FlatWhat:
21	--> '''Creator/QuentinTarantino[=/=]Ringo''':"Manga/{{Akira}}! Oh, how that lonesome sound brings me back. At the end, I am an [[spoiler:anime otaku]] at heart."
22	--> '''Other Guy:''' "... What?"
23	* GatlingGood: See the 5 o'clock position on the page image.
24	* HollywoodAtlas: More astute viewers may notice that Nevada is not in Japan.
25	* ImmuneToBullets: Bloody Benten reacts to being shot in the back 3 times by turning around and looking annoyed.
26	* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Along with BarehandedBladeBlock, the Whites/Genji's leader Yoshitsune can [[spoiler: [[BulletCatch deflect bullets with his katana]].]]
27	%%% * InstantDeathBullet: If you're not a main character. See ArbitraryGunPower.
28	%% * KnightErrant
29	%% * LadyOfWar: Bloody Benten.
30	* LeadTheTarget: Used by the leader of the whites, Yoichi, who shoots "Henry" from kilometers away by "boomeranging" the bullets with gravity into his path. ''Three times!''
31	* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler: During the final battle, Henry keeps stating that "This time, the Reds win!"]]
32	%% * NothingUpMySleeve: [[spoiler:The final gunshot.]]
33	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[spoiler: It is [[ButtMonkey the Sheriff]] that kills the legendary [[RetiredGunfighter Bloody Benten]] at the end of the movie. And he is immediately killed by the [[SilentBob old woman from the mountains]] with a [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice grave marker]]. ]]
34	%% * PurelyAestheticEra: More than one with AnachronismStew.
35	%% * [[RedOniBlueOni Red Oni White Oni]]
36	%% * SerialEscalation: How much can we eschew substance in favor of style?
37	%% * SnowMeansDeath
38	* ThemeMusicWithholding: A cover of Franco Migliacci's Django theme appears in the final scene.
39	%% * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill
40	%% * TheSheriff:
41	%% ** PluckyComicRelief
42	%% ** TheQuisling
43	%% ** ButtMonkey
44	%% ** ToonPhysics
45	* ThrowAwayGuns: In one shot in the final battle, the protagonist throws an empty gun ''[[spoiler:through a man]]''.
46	%% * TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: Ruriko and Toshiro]]
47	* WorthyOpponent: Yoshitsune claims to be searching for this his entire life and thinks he finds it in the protagonist.
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