[afterthefact]

Just watched this Friday. IMO, it was excellent.

It seemed to start off slow; not a lot going on, and when things did happen, you weren't sure why they were happening because you were dropped into the middle of the story. Then again, this is very typical of westerns (or at least spaghetti westerns, the only kind I have really watched; I'm not a fan of the John Wayne sort).

I also enjoyed the surreal quality of the movie, and not only the intentionally surreal parts. Just the fact that it was a japanese imitation of spaghetti westerns -which themselves are italian imitations of american westerns -gave it a unique feel. While it's true that usually a copy of a copy produces a shoddy product (if you don't know what I mean, try it with your house key and see if you can get inside your home with the final key), if done right, like it was with this movie, you can have a finished version of a film that makes you feel like you are watching a bizarre dream after a marathon of Clint Eastwood movies and bad sushi.