Visitor Q

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Visitor Q
Japanese theatrical poster
Directed by	Takashi Miike
Written by	Itaru Era
Starring	Kenichi Endō Shungicu Uchida Kazushi Watanabe
Cinematography	Hideo Yamamoto
Edited by	Yasushi Shimamura
Music by	Kōji Endō
Distributed by	CineRocket
Release date	17 March 2001 (2001-03-17)
Running time	84 min
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	¥7,000,000 (~$60,400)

Visitor Q (ビジターＱ, Bijitā Kyū) is a 2001 Japanese erotic black comedy-horror film^[1] directed by Takashi Miike. It was filmed as the sixth and final part of the Love Cinema series consisting of six straight-to-video releases by independent filmmakers via a brief but exclusive run at the minuscule Shimokitazawa cinema in Tokyo.^[2] The six films were conceived as low budget exercises to explore the benefits afforded by the low-cost digital video medium such as the increased mobility of the camera and the low-lighting conditions available to the filmmakers.^[3]

Visitor Q often replicates the style of documentary footage and home movies, which invokes a sense of realism that contradicts the film's more bizarre elements and black comedy. The film's plot is often compared to Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema, in which a strange visitor to a wealthy family seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter, and finally the father, before leaving a few days after, subsequently changing their lives.^[4]