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Pistol Opera Details

2001

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Starring	Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi
Director	Seijun Suzuki
Genres	Thriller, World Cinema

Pistol Opera

Seijun Suzuki, the legendary Japanese director probably best known for the cult hit BRANDED TO KILL, returns with this movie about a league of killers of hire. Something of a sequel to BRANDED TO KILL, the film stars Makiko Esumi as a killer named Miyuki Minazuki but known as "Stray Cat" the number three assassin in Japan's professional killer guild. As in its predecessor, number three is contacted by the guild and ordered to kill number one. Knowing that if she succeeds she will become number one, Miyuki embarks on a difficult and dangerous mission to kill the elusive number one. Told in Suzuki's trademark style that blends a fractured narrative with lurid and heavily stylized action sequences, PISTOL OPERA is another brilliant work from a great director.

Starring	Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi
Director	Seijun Suzuki
Studio	YUME PICTURES
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 52 mins
Certificate
Genres	Thriller, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Japanese
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2001 To Rent: DVD: 23 Oct 2006

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- Eye-poppingly stylized... a lineup of outrageous set pieces, each more surreal than the last... a riot of visual abstraction... aesthetically stimulating and impudently funny.
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  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
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  theatre, not film
  
  suzuki chan, you're getting on a bit now, but its always nice to keep experimenting innit? This is theatre dressed up as a film; it was not entertainment ... read more »
  
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  - edinburo
  - 23 Jan 2007 at 19:06
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  Pistol Odd-pera
  
  Like watching a dream that seems to make sense while watching it but is actually insane, Pistol opera is the story of numbered killers trying to take each other... read more »
  
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  - Scarborough
  - 05 Dec 2007 at 09:55
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  Strange and beautiful...
  
  I loved it. Similar, identical almost in fact, to the plot of Suzuki's Branded to Kill and just as strange. Intriguingly filmed, Suzuki manages always to ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 14 Jul 2007 at 13:44
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  theatre, not film
  
  suzuki chan, you're getting on a bit now, but its always nice to keep experimenting innit? This is theatre dressed up as a film; it was not entertainment ... read more »
  
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  Seijun Suzuki, the legendary Japanese director probably best known for the cult hit BRANDED TO KILL, returns with this movie about a league of killers of hire. Something of a sequel to BRANDED TO KILL, the film stars Makiko Esumi as a killer named Miyuki Minazuki but known as "Stray Cat" the number ...