Visitor Q (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray]

Visitor Q Limited Edition Blu-ray brings Takashi Miike’s notorious 2001 film to Blu-ray in North America for the first time, newly transferred from the original master beta tape. Darkly comic, confrontational and deeply strange, Visitor Q is one of Miike’s most transgressive works, blending family breakdown, social satire and extreme arthouse provocation into a deliberately unsettling portrait of dysfunction.

Kenichi Endo stars as a struggling reporter whose attempts to push boundaries have left his personal life in ruins. At home, his family is fractured by abuse, addiction, alienation and resentment, with each member trapped in a cycle of harm and despair.

Into this unstable household arrives Q, a mysterious stranger whose presence begins to reshape the family in bizarre and unpredictable ways. Equal parts shock cinema, black comedy and surreal domestic nightmare, Visitor Q remains one of Miike’s most infamous and challenging films.

directed by: Takashi Miike
starring: Kenichi Endo, Shungiku Uchida, Kazushi Watanabe, Showko Nakahara, Fujiko
2001 / 84 min / Japanese 5.1 Surround / 1-Disc Region Free Blu-ray