Bijitâ Q

Plot synopsis:
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.
In the next scene, called "Have you ever been hit on the head?", a man (Visitor Q) hits the father over the head with a rock for no apparent reason.
The film then moves on to a scene titled "Have you ever hit your mom?" In this scene, the mother, Keiko is working on a jigsaw puzzle, and her hands are shown to have red marks, showing where she was beaten. Her young son, Takuya, comes in and starts throwing things at the already broken apartment walls because he is unhappy with the toothbrush his mother bought him. He then hits his mother with a rug beating stick. Later, bullies from the son's school come to the front of the house and shoot fireworks through the son's bedroom window. The mother is later seen injecting heroin. It does not seem to have a huge effect on her, though, suggesting she is a regular user.
On his way back from work, the father is yet again hit on the head by the same man. They both arrive at the father's home and the mother serves them dinner. The father announces that the man will be staying with the family for a while. The son comes down while they are eating and starts beating the mother again. This does not surprise or bother the father, or the visitor. Later, the father is seen watching one of his old tapes, and it turns out that he was raped by a group of teenagers.
The next day, the father is on his way to work when he sees his son being beaten and robbed by some children from school. He films it from a distance and appears very pleased with the footage.
The mother, meanwhile, is getting ready for work. The viewer discovers her body is covered in marks from where the son has hurt her. She also has a limp.
The father meets with a female co-worker (Asako Murata), who believes he is going too far in his work. The mother, working as a prostitute, is whipping a customer with a belt (at his request). She then goes to buy some drugs.
When she gets home, she discovers the pieces from her jigsaw have been arranged so as to form a trail through the house and ending at a photograph of her daughter. The visitor is at home and he introduces her to lactation sex (squeezing her nipples to make her lactate, a recurring theme in this film). The son sees this while hiding behind the door.
At dinner, the mother is much happier than usual, and has prepared a nice meal. The son, however, is sullen and throws a bowl of hot soup at her face. The wife—instead of being downtrodden, as usual—comes back with a carving knife and throws it at the head of her son, who dodges just in time. Everyone is very pleased, except the son. However, the father becomes exhilarated when the schoolchildren start attacking his house with fireworks again, which he videotapes. Meanwhile, the mother and the visitor continue to eat peacefully.
Next day, the son is bullied again. The father is taping his son from his car with the visitor and his female co-worker. The co-worker gets fed up with the father and tries to leave. The father follows her on foot and sexually assaults her while the visitor, emotionally neutral, tapes the scene. The father unintentionally chokes his victim to death.
He takes her body back home and puts her in the greenhouse. The visitor is still taping, at the father's instruction. The father sends the visitor to get garbage bags from the mother. But when the visitor asks her for them she takes her clothes off and reveals she is dressed in a garbage bag. She then makes herself lactate and produces a rain of human milk that covers the floor while the visitor watches from underneath an umbrella.
During this time, the husband is drawing on the woman’s body to mark the best places to cut it up so the smaller pieces will fit in the bags. He tapes this for his documentary. Becoming aroused, the father has sex with the dead body. He then notices she is getting wet and is amazed that this is possible for a dead woman. When he brings his hand up, however, it is covered in feces. He then discovers that his penis is stuck inside the corpse due to Rigor mortis. The mother comes out to help and rushes to the shop to buy lots of oils and vinegar. She empties the bottles into the bath with her husband and the corpse. This does not help, though, so she gives him a shot of heroin, which frees him. They are both exhilarated.
The visitor has filmed the whole scene.
Later on, the couple is having fun dismembering the female co-worker's corpse when the son turns up in the front yard with the same children beating him. The parents rush out and with great pleasure they finally kill all the bullies using the axes and knives they were using to cut the co-worker's body to pieces. Later, their son is shown lying on the floor in the puddle of maternal milk. He thanks the visitor for the chaos he brought to their family which helped them become closer than ever.
The visitor leaves the family. Afterwards, encountering and being propositioned by the prostitute daughter on the street, he hits her on the head with a rock. The final scene shows the daughter too has returned home due to the visitor, and she and her father share a nursing session on the mother.

Tags: dark, comedy, cruelty, murder, cult, violence, psychedelic, absurd, satire, sadist

Review:
I've seen over half a dozen Takashi Miike movies, so I'm aware of how bizarre his output can be, but nothing can quite prepare you for how extreme 'Visitor Q' is!
He's also breathtakingly prolific, having completed around twenty projects since this, which was released only three years ago(!) Miike's best known movies in the last few years include the ultra-violent live action manga 'Ichi The Killer', the slow psychological thriller 'Audition', and the zany, feel good zombie musical 'The Happiness Of The Katakuris'.
But, instead of falling into a dogma-like movie, Miike pushes the plot to its most unacceptable extremities, sometimes flirting with the fantastic genre.Miike plays with multi point of views, particularly during the opening scene, in which the girl takes photographs of her father before they sleep together.
Such was the case with Visitor Q a very strange journey, but ultimately a very shocking, entertaining and thought provoking one.The story is about this incredibly dysfunctional family in which everyone is living in their own little world.
I think that many of the themes explored on this film are very relevant for the Japanese culture and I'm sure Miike is just venting all those frustrations out through this artistic outlet, but Ill be damned if all this social commentary isn't relevant to any other culture.Then there's the Visitor Q.
Anyhows, I'm sure many people will have their own interpretation as to who the visitor is and what he represents...so Ill leave that up to you.All in all I thought this movie was hugely entertaining, just because of the fact that I couldn't believe some of the things that were happening on the screen as I watched.
This was the fourth Miike film I've seen (Audition, Ichi, Gozu...well 5th if you count his short from Three Extremes) and I think this was by far the most bizarre and disturbing.
Possibly the Most Screwed-Up Film You'll Ever See. Another world exists, and we are given a glimpse into that world: where sons beat their mothers, fathers are attracted to their daughters, and random strangers take up residence in a home and begin to run the household as they see fit.
While the violence is much less than I've seen from Miike, the bizarre sexual aspects are pushed to new limits.I don't know what I can write here without being obscene, but it's hard to describe this film without at least mentioning a few of the extreme sexual cases presented: incest, necrophilia, sex with feces, a woman who enjoys making herself lactate until she's flooded the room.
I really liked it, if for no other reason than that every time I thought it couldn't get weirder, I was wrong.If you watch the opening scene and don't mind what you see, watch this film.
You're stuck there in the best seat in the house, centre of the row in your own special sweet spot that you swapped three times before you got just the right seat - and after about what feels like 13 hours you are still trapped there, uncomfortable and itchy, thinking "When the F*** is this film ever going to END???" (You know the feeling - think of A.I. and The Village).Well, Visitor Q delivers a weird variant of that feeling.
This movie must have come from the mind of some daranged psycho because besides having necrophilia, pointless murders, and incest...this movie also combines scenes where the mother repeatedly gets her butt kicked by her family as she injects herself with drugs and then later becomes a chronic lactater.
I can see how some people may enjoy this film for its darker than dark humor, but if you want to see a movie about 'Mother's Milk' and rigormortis, watch Gozu instead.
The "amateur" style of cinematography gives the reality feel, so its "purposely" made to look "cheap" as others have commented.First look of this film may look like a sex or violence exploitation movie.
This film is a twisted nonsense of a movie, set in Japan about a dysfunctional family who end up with a strange violent guest who just sits back and watches the 4 members of the family at their worst.
They are actually quite similar, however, even down to never, in both cases, revealing exactly who is this visitor who has turned the whole family upside down.I feel sorry for those who bagged this film here, as they are not equipped to appreciate it for what it is.
"Visitor Q" is a failed attempt at black comedy which focuses on what might be the world's most dysfunctional family including physical abuse from beatings to murder to incest to sodomy  to necrophilia to a lactating mom who nurses her husband and adult daughter, etc.
Meet the Yamazakis: father Kiyoshi, a failed TV reporter, is diddling his sexy prostitute daughter Miki; disturbed teenage son Takuya is being bullied at school, but dishes out the violence at home; and mum Keiko is turning tricks to fund her drugs habit.Into this extremely dysfunctional family unit comes a strange visitor who brings peace and harmony to the household through the power of lactation.Even by Takashi Miike's standards, Visitor Q is one hell of a weird ride, and is undoubtedly the director's most outrageous work to date (and considering this is the same guy who gave us Ichi the Killer, Gozu and Audition, that is really saying something!).From its opening sex scene between Kiyoshi and Miki (which narrowly avoids being overly explicit thanks to some judicious blurring) to the breast milk drenched finalé, this deranged shot on DV feature presents enough sex and violence for the most depraved of film fans, and even manages to answer that age old question "What should I do if I get my penis trapped inside a dead woman's vagina?'.Exactly what message Miike is trying to convey with this film is anyone's guess, but for wall-to-wall deviancy, you'll be hard pushed to find anything better (or should that be 'worse'?).I give Visitor Q a rating of 8 out of 10 purely for it's ability to render even the most jaded of viewers speechless..
One would think that a film about the dissolution of what may be the basis of Japanese society - the family unit - would be full of pathos and the edginess of portraying dysfunctionality, yet what Visitor Q achieves here (especially towards the end), is something more transcendent, and by that fact, more moving, than that.
Not one that we know, of course, but one where each member in the family unit drown themselves in their deviancy, distancing themselves further and further away from each other.Yet, all this sexual deviancy and wanton violence never seem pointless, for (as it is seen as the film progresses) it seems that the reason why the people in the movie become more deviant and the further away from each other, stems from their desire to return to the early beginnings of family, when things like sex and violence were out of the equation; when things were a lot less complicated.
To put it simply, in a strange way, the more extreme they act, the more they want to return to family, which is what makes it especially resonant in a time when family is losing its importance.So when the film opens, we see these people lost in their own devices, and vices; sinking deeper and deeper down into the murky depths of deformed humanity.
Ahead of this violence, Miike gave us a beautiful, strong and touching portrait of motherhood, some serious questions about Japanese society and family and he found a way to make a lot of references to classic cinema, mocking classic horror movies and saying hello to Pasolini throughout the visitor.
He asks the good question at the good time with Visitor Q.Like Miike challenged me, I challenge you, reader, to view this movie and to like it.
Miike's "family" movie blends gleeful perversion with domestic drama.This dysfunctional family expresses itself in drug abuse, indifference to violence, incest, necrophilia and alienation.The comic aspects arise from these extremities and are presented matter-of-factly.The necro sequence, which follows a rape that ends in homicide, is one of the film's funniest and grossest, and its Miike's ability to walk a line between repellant and surreal that wins the day and grabs one's attention.This is a very entertaining, provocative movie that is never predictable or a minute too long.Originally made for TV and shot on video for $80,000.
Takashi Miike is one of the most creative directors from Japan."Visitor Q" is about a family with some seriously messed up issues that comes together when a stranger-who introduces himself by smashing a rock into the head of the father character-descends upon their household and inspires in them their basest urges.This film is seriously twisted:it contains prostitution,drug-use,sexual assault,incest,asphyxiation,defecation,an incredible amount of lactation,rape,murder,necrophilia,and just plain insanity.Some scenes are so over the top that you'll scratch your head in a total disbelief.Highly recommended,especially for fans of Japanese cinema.10 out of 10-what else?.
This film is shocking but fails in the way it tells you the story, "they were a flawed family but the strange visitor make them happy"...
Most people today wants to be extreme, watch films like this, trying to be cool, justifying films like this that are pure BS and calling it art, even with the "happy" ending this movie doesn't leave you with anything good but a irresponsible display of brutal thoughts turn into a movie.
Finally I can say this movie confirmed something I thought a while ago, Gerardo Bloomerfield is a Mexican horror storyteller, for me the most shocking of his stories is "Abejorros", if you want to be shocked, read it, is in Spanish but you can translate with Google, I respect a lot of things, but seriously, the emotions that this kind of movies or stories put inside you are not worthy to be experimented, at least you are some twisted new age viewer willing to put interest in this kind of empty films.
If you want some shocking experience watch "El Topo" from Jodorowsky, really good movie that follows a context, not just plain mental crap justified with a "happy" ending..
There are some really disturbing sences in this film where his son beats up his mom, who is also a prostitute and also a heroin addict, and has to inject herself everyday."Q" a strange man comes and lives with the family but before he injures the father by hitting him in the head with a large stone, who he later becomes friends with.
well..explaining visitor q in a few words is quite difficult.The amazing thing about this film is that while it shocks you, the same time you can't help but laugh at the weird and comical situations.
This gets all combined with its absurd story, that strengthens all of its other themes, making this an odd as well as an unique viewing experience.Despite all of its heavy visual themes, with violence and sex, the movie is above all things also strangely entertaining to watch.
The whole thing is filmed like a reality TV show and Miike was way ahead of his time on this one.
As usual, he throws in scenes that will disgust pretty much ANYONE but "Visitor Q" is missing the elements of stomach-turning violence and torture that we have come to expect from this director and I think this is one of his better films for the lack of that.So, grab a pizza, a few buddies, your mom, dad, and sister and watch this one on a school night!
I watched this movie and I gotta tell you..It is not that disturbing when you finally realize that things can get better even for a messed up family like the one in this movie.
Father: cares more about his son and wants to do something good for the youth by making a documentary film about sex and violence amongst the youth.
First he hits the father with a rock twice which makes him - the father - think about how unsafe and brutal his society has become and decides to make a documentary about violence and sex abuse among the youth (the night he was hit on the head he couldn't get much sleep, grabs his camcorder and goes out to his car to watch a film featuring him being sexually abused by a couple of bullies) which later on made him stood up for his son - with the help of his wife - by killing those bullies which led to him finding his long-time buried feelings for his wife.
for the eye of a couch potatoes this kind of movies will look disgusting and agitate there fear-anger, for the eye of the inquisitives mind its pure blissfulness.the last scene consequently gives us a beautiful glimpse of what nature truly is the high "goddess"-power.thank you takashi miike.
switching between father, mother, son, daughter, and the visitor throughout the movie makes you constantly wonder who's eyes you're seeing the current scene through.the ending of the movie was so beautiful, it almost made me cry.
"Audition" and "Dead or Alive", the two Miike movies I've seen so far, gave me an inkling as to what I could expect from "Visitor Q", but at the same time, Q was so different.
Miike has evolved significantly from Audition (which was excellent), and has managed to create a film that portrays the antisocial, detached feelings of the modern family in a shocking light.
Though Visitor Q is presented in a strange manner, it works well with the odd subject material and Miike is subtle enough in his direction that the viewer will not be confused by the end of the movie.For Takashi Miike fans this is the epitome of all of his work (only rivaled by Audition).
Without the witness there can be no choice made, no freewill, only control, and we've been controlled for far too long.The film definitely has it's humorous moments, amidst dysfunction and a non sugar-coated reality that exists everywhere.In a world so lost and uncertain due to generations of neglecting inner self and personal feeling, a family is focused on to see what dregs of humanity the constrained culture has brought them to.A mother beaten by her son, who doesn't know simple acceptance of herself.
Or when things start getting particularly disturbing (necrophilia, yeah) and the juxtaposition of father to mother in these scenes is extraordinary in deranged comic timing.After it ended, with the final shot leaving a look on my face like a dog in front of a different piece of food in the bowl, I knew that Visitor Q is a work that goes beyond taking an ultra-serious look at the world of these psychotic criminals- or at the least social introverts and with sexual intentions that go over the edge- it worked a lot better than it might have at doing just a straightforward mockumentary of reality-TV.
It sets the tone for the film.Visitor Q feels like a series of increasingly effed up events within a strange and thoroughly dysfunctional family.
Visitor Q is a film for people with open minds and those people who only watch Hollywood movies should stay well clear of this.
She just milks herself.That's not even the half of it.Some people might like this film because it has some "sick" stuff in it, but who CARES when the entire thing is utterly and absolutely POINTLESS?Typical Japanese crap.
Visitor Q (2001) ** (out of 4) Bizarre Takashi Miike film about a failed TV reporter who decides to make a documentary about sex and violence.
To do so he has sex with his now prostitute daughter and also films other strange parts of his family including his son who beats his mother, who just happens to be a drug addict.
This would deter most people but if you are open minded and willing to break out of your shell this movie is oddly funny and touching and has a really good message about family.If this is your first Miike film I would strongly recommend seeing Audition, Ichi the Killer or the Dead or Alive trilogy before seeing this as this is easily his most disturbing film.4/5.
Overall, its an extreme black comedy, anybody who doesn't see this is totally missing the point.Not many filmmakers can pull off extreme subject matter in a *sort of* tasteful way, as this Miike guy can - so check this one out if you can.Watch it with an open mind and you will come away with a compelling and thoughtful movie, this is one that you wont see on TV, and hey isn't that such a refreshing thought.Recommmeded dark comedy!.
"Bizita Q" ("Visitor Q") directed by Takashi Miike Japans, well the worlds most busiest director, is a fantastic film.
And so we sort of have Seul Contre Tous meets Pink Flamingos, although it really is unlike any other film I have ever seen.The thing about Miike is the plot seems to be almost unimportant to him, he is it appears to me to be more concerned with individual scenes that could be watched on their own, like an artist concentrating on one image at a time- the cockfight from city of lost souls or the opening of dead or alive, and this is very true about this film- hey I don't know what the final plot twist involving breast milk was really about, and I'm not sure I wanna know.
I'd recommend watching the more palatable Happiness of the Katakuris first, and if you don't like that films off beat humour, stay far far away from visitor Q.Miike reminds me of Ed Wood in a good way.
If you can watch the opening scene in VISITOR Q and laugh nervously then you might just make it through this dark gem of a movie.
After seeing Takeshi Miikes film "Audition" I was expecting some disturbing images from "Visitor Q".
If you are a fan of Miike, Japanese film, or extreme movies in general, put this at the top of your list.