Visitor Q

So we went back to it.

Takashi Miike's Visitor Q is getting a brand new transfer Blu-ray release from the original master beta tape, Visitor Q from Radiance.

Audio commentary by Miike, biographer Tom Mess.

Newly filmed interviews with the director as well as some of the stars.

They've been doing it for years.

And it's also a newly approved English subtitle translation.

I have not seen Visitor Queue yet.

A few people that I know and trust, one of them being Shelby at Viper Video, he's like, oh no, you should see Visitor Queue.

Oh, yeah.

And then mentioning Pink Cat, the next thing I watched was Visitor Q from 2001, which I gave five stars.

Um, I watched this because they had covered it on Pink Cat Podcast, and, um-

Oh, hell yeah

There's also this gay character who's also seeing this other guy who's this, like, voyeuristic.

I would describe him a little bit like Visitor Q when we watched that film, where he's just kind of observing and being a part of the scenes, but he does get a bit more of a full-on role towards the end.

And it was really interesting because it is kind of a little bit light-hearted still, but...

But as you approach the end, it becomes really poetic and melancholic and a bit surreal and almost meta in a way.

if there's anything that's like i think it's like if there's anything you can change about the production or challenging about the production what would it be and he's like well my crew keeps like complaining about how many mirrors there are and how hard it is and i just i just like don't care if the camera's in there or not he's just like fuck it if the camera's in the mirror the camera's in the mirror you can't be stressing about any of this nonsense and he's just like he's just so real for that

Yeah, this is why he's great.

I think it's like you can pull that same approach from Takashi Miike's Visitor Queue.

Like, we're shooting on DV.

There's a comedy in that, isn't there? The dual format 4K UHD and Blu-ray contains a theatrical cut, plus on the Blu-ray only as an exclusive, the director's cut, a new visual essay by critic and author Dane, who popped up on the previous release, a new appreciation by director and cinematographer Sean Price-Williams, and more, including alternate scenes from the UK version, which was The Streetwalker, and a 16mm short film by the director called Brief Von Paris.

Takashi Mike's controversial, is there any other word to describe the director's works, or at least most of his works? Visitor Q is also released in a new transfer from the original Master Better Tape, alongside an audio commentary by Mike biographer Tom Mez.

New interviews with Mike and stars Kenichi Endo and Shoko Nakahara, plus a new visual essay by Kat Ellinger.

This is a great month from my perspective for Radiance.

yeah.

And you already did Visitor Q, so it's about time you do Ichi and Frankenstein's Army.

Who doesn't love a little World War II Frankensteinery? And as always...

Zach, you better be giving us the best Chainsaw Charlie Slasher's impression, which, you know, unfortunately, no.