Takashi Miike's got style to burn, but it's usually in support of unstructured messes like "Sukiyaki Western Django." His best film is the classic, (mostly) austere thriller "Audition." The commentary in "Sukiyaki" on the Western as a genre is intriguing--Japanese actors reading English dialogue in a "Nevada" that looks exactly like the town from "Yojimbo." Too bad the plot goes in three or four too many directions at once. Oh well, there's always the five movies he's made since this one.
You can tell they spent more time on the costumes than on anything else.
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