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Special Guest: Tom Mes Guest Co-Hosts: Kevin Heffernan, Patrick Bromley Written by Itaru Era, the 2001 movie from prolific director Takashi Miike Visitor Q tells the story of a family in disarray. The unemployed father (Ken’ichi Endô) a former newsman who laid off after an unfortunate incident, the mother (Shungiku Uchida) a heroin addict who prostitutes herself for money to get a fix, the son (Jun Mutô) is a victim of bullying who then bullies his own mother, and the daughter (Fujiko) who has left home to become a prostitute as well. When the titular Visitor Q (Kazushi Watanabe) shows up… things change. Special guest Tom Mes, author of Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike, discusses Miike’s career. Co-Hosts Patrick Bromley and Kevin Heffernan join Mike to examine Visitor Q as well as François Ozon’s Sitcom and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema (1968). Links: Buy Visitor Q on DVD Buy Sitcom on DVD Buy Teorema on DVD Buy Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike by Tom Mes Buy Re-Agitator: A Decade of Writing on Takashi Miike by Tom Mes Buy Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto by Tom Mes