Visitor Q
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| Directed by | Takashi Miike |
| Written by | Itaru Era |
| Starring |
Kenichi Endo Shungicu Uchida Kazushi Watanabe |
| Music by | Kōji Endō |
| Edited by | Yasushi Shimamura |
| Distributed by | CineRocket |
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Release date
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17 March 2001 |
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Running time
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84 min |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | ¥7,000,000 (~$60,400) |
Visitor Q (ビジターＱ Bizhitā Kyū?) is a 2001 black comedy/drama-horror filmdirected by Japanese director 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 film 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.
The film starts off with a question: "Have you ever done it with your Dad?"; the viewer then sees Miki Yamazaki, a young prostitute, trying to persuade her father, Kiyoshi, into having sex with her. Her father is videotaping the scene for a documentary he is preparing on Japanese youths. Once it appears the father is letting himself be persuaded, she tells him the price (50,000 Yen). They have sex, the father ejaculates after a very short time and the disappointed daughter informs him it will be 100,000 Yen now, because of this. The father then realizes the camera has been on all along.
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