From prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike, director of extreme cinema cult classics such as Audition and Ichi The Killer, comes Sukiyaki Western Django, a deranged exercise in movie genre splicing that not only redefines the spaghetti (or, in Japanese terms, 'macaroni') western in Miike's own inimitable style, but also features a cameo by Quentin Tarantino, returning the favour for Miike's cameo appearance in Hostel, which Tarantino executive produced.

Taking its thematic and visual cues from Sergio Leone's A Fistful Of Dollars and Sergio Corbucci's Django – significantly, both remakes of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo – Miike's wild film brings the origins of the spaghetti western genre full circle in a surreal and colourful operatic orgy of gun play, bloodletting and stylish ultra-violence.

Miike's first full English language feature (inspired by the success of Imprint, his English language contribution to the TV series, Masters Of Horror), Sukiyaki Western Django stars Hideaki Ito (The Princess Blade), Koichi Sato (Starfish Hotel), Yusuke Iseya (Casshern), Masanobu Ando (Black Kiss; Battle Royale), Yoshino Kimura (Copycat Killer), Teruyuki Kagawa (Twentieth Century Boys), Kaori Momoi (Memoirs Of A Geisha) and Renji Ishibashi (Twentieth Century Boys).

In the village of Yuta, the white clad Genji and red clad Heike gangs are locked in a deadly face off as they both struggle to uncover a fabled treasure hidden somewhere in the desolate mountain settlement. Into this ongoing feud strolls a lone gunman, a drifter with a dark past and deadly shooting skills. With a vast fortune at stake, each of the warring clans tries desperately to persuade the mysterious stranger to join with them, but he has other, secretive, plans of his own... As the story unfolds in a hail of bullets, vengeance, lust and heroic bloodshed, the lies, deceit and betrayals spiral toward a final, explosive showdown.

Beautifully and vibrantly shot by Alan Rudolph's regular cinematographer, Toyomichi Kurita (Afterglow; The Moderns; Trouble In Mind; Cookie's Fortune), Sukiyaki Western Django is apparently something akin to viewing a Sergio Leone movie on acid – a subversive trip into a vision of the Wild West the likes of which has never been seen before.

Sukiyaki Western Django (cert. 15) will be released on DVD by Contender Home Entertainment on 2nd February 2009 at the RRP of £15.99. Special Features include deleted scenes and Q&A with Quentin Tarantino. The disc will feature English 5.1, Stereo and DTS audio options.