An incestual prologue and a corpse hacking finale are the two pieces of bread that hold together the filth sandwich that Takashi Miike wants to feed you: VISITOR Q.. Celebrating cultural values like sex and violence, this ode to the family unit is Japan's ookiest home video. Little Brother beats his mother, when he's not getting whomped on by school bullies; Sis is a hooker; Dad is her sometime customer; Mom's a junkie. Taking basic family relationships and exaggerating them slightly - okay, a lot - Miike makes a movie that celebrates the family, even as it squirts breast milk all over their kitchen floor.

Starring manga artist Shungiku Uchida (known for her autobiographical bestseller, FATHER FUCKER) as the lactating matriarch, and shot for $70,000 in seven days as an entry in Cine Rocket's "Love Cinema" series, it's a nature film whose wild animals are your family members. Because Takashi Miike loves this family. They're homicidal, incestual, creepy, and all-together revolting but isn't that the way most of us feel about other peoples' families anyways? Who doesn't feel that, deep down, the families they see around them are dysfunctional, repressed and somewhat disturbing? From the friend whose mother seems just a little bit too close for comfort, to the in-law who keeps bragging about being "daddy's girl", to the co-workers who wanted to be ballet dancers or horticulturists but whose parents insisted they get a "real" job. And don't kid yourself, your family looks just as sick to everyone else