Simply put, it’s not an edition of the Fantasia Film Festival without a Takashi Miike flick (or two, or three). One of the sprawling Canadian genre fest’s claims to fame is introducing the director to North American audiences in the 1990s, and Fantasia has since remained loyal to the Japanese maverick, even when the films have questionable commercial appeal to mainstream Western audiences, as is the case with manga adaptation “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I.” Regardless, the film — receiving an opening night berth for its North American Premiere here in Montreal — is candy-colored catnip to the insatiable Fantasia crowd.

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