And the trailer does in fact look retarded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSpCWJnnWVIand here's another clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-Wp0QcJuEThe movie is obviously bad on purpose though, I'll give it that. So its some sort of self-aware japanese action movie/melodramatic farce which is a lot like more western movies like Scary Movie or whatever those lumps of crap that come out every couple of years to try and cash in on the latest Hollywood trend with a few lame jokes. Only instead of a huge amount of bad comedy they've replaced a lot of it with a gore-fest. True, Tarantino's Kill Bill Volume 1 and
Rodriguez' half of Grindhouse (Planet Terror) share a lot in common with these types of movies but aren't the same. For one thing, I very much doubt I'd like this movie as much or better than those because mainly the schools of filmaking that they come from. I'm not saying that Hollywood is better or that Asian produced movies are bad but they play to very different audiences. I just don't "get" a lot of the movies, anime etc. that comes from Japan, because its part of a different culture that I wasn't raised on, with different styles and conventions that can make something just downright wierd to one of the uninitiated. You get it, obviously, but don't be dissin' my Tarantino. (or Robert Rodriguez, for that matter).
Also since you really liked this movie I can recommend Tears of the Black Tiger
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269217/ to you heavily. Saw it this year in my Genre Theory on the International Western class this semester and it was extremely quirky and extremely stylized along the conventions of Melodrama more commonly found in Eastern film. Yet it is a Western in its own way.