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Pistol Opera Reviews

2001

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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 three assassin in Japan's .. Read more

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

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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.
- 40875
- - Variety
  - 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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  - Koppert
  - 253 reviews
  - 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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  - edinburo
  - 23 Jan 2007 at 19:06
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  Weird Rubbish !
  
  Havind read the review I expected this to be something like Kill Bill but I hated every minute of it. Stylish it may be but entertaining it isn't !
  
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  - 18 Nov 2006 at 13:31
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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 »
  
  Report this review
- 405332
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - reward
  - 9 reviews
  - edinburo
  - 23 Jan 2007 at 19:06
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  Weird Rubbish !
  
  Havind read the review I expected this to be something like Kill Bill but I hated every minute of it. Stylish it may be but entertaining it isn't !
  
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  - Liverpool
  - 18 Nov 2006 at 13:31
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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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  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 »
  
  Report this review
- 501218
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Koppert
  - 253 reviews
  - Scarborough
  - 05 Dec 2007 at 09:55

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Critics' reviews
- 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.
- 40875
- - Variety
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
- Encouraged by the recent 'Deep Seijun' tribute in Tokyo, Suzuki emerges from directorial retirement with a... read more on Time Out
- 49553
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:20
- Truly a wonderful picture... Everything I like about Seijun Suzuki, but more extreme.
- 40872
- - Ain't It Cool News
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
- A Sam Fuller movie as interpreted by Jean Cocteau.
- 40874
- - Philadelphia City Paper
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25
- Insanely likeable.
- 40873
- - New York Times
  - 08 Oct 2007 at 15:25

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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 ...