Radiance Films is bringing Takashi Miike’s 2001 Japanese cult shocker Visitor Q back to Blu-ray in a Limited Edition release on 19 October 2026 – and since it is capped at 5,000 copies, “I’ll pick it up eventually” probably isn’t the safest plan if you want the Scanavo case, removable OBI strip, reversible sleeve, and booklet with writing by Ana Došen.
Calling Visitor Q a simple shock movie never really covered it anyway, because it plays more like a pitch-black comedy about a family hitting absolute rock bottom and discovering there is another basement underneath it, though it is still pretty horrific.
Struggling news reporter Kiyoshi (Kenichi Endo) is desperate to prove himself at work and keeps crossing lines for a story, while his bullied teenage son turns violent at home, his wife (Showko Nakahara) turns to heroin, and his daughter gets dragged into the collapse too – right before a mysterious stranger named Q shows up with an uncanny sense of what each of them needs, whether that means violence, murder, or something way stranger.
Radiance somehow manages to compare it to Pier Paolo Pasolini, Yasujirō Ozu, and John Waters all at once, and weirdly enough, it actually turns tender by the end, very, very weirdly tender.
The Region ABC disc uses a new transfer from the original master beta tape with updated English subtitles, plus a 2026 audio commentary by Tom Mes, new interviews with Miike, Endo, and Nakahara, a visual essay by Kat Ellinger (Mother’s Milk: Visitor Q and the Feminine Principle), and the trailer – you can buy it here.
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