Pistol Opera
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| Pistol Opera | |
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| Directed by | Seijun Suzuki |
| Written by | Kazunori Itō Takeo Kimura |
| Produced by | Ikki Katashima Satoru Ogura |
| Starring | Makiko Esumi Sayoko Yamaguchi Kirin Kiki Mikijiro Hira Masatoshi Nagase |
| Cinematography | Yonezo Maeda |
| Edited by | Akira Suzuki |
| Music by | Kazufumi Kodama |
Production company | Branded to Kill: Pistol Opera Production Committee |
| Distributed by | Shochiku |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Pistol Opera (ピストルオペラ, Pisutoru Opera) is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Makiko Esumi.[1][2]
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Makiko Esumi as Miyuki Minazuki, a.k.a. Stray Cat, a.k.a. Killer No. 3
- Sayoko Yamaguchi as Sayoko Uekyo
- Kirin Kiki as Minazuki's grandmother
- Mikijiro Hira as Goro Hanada, a.k.a. The Champ, a.k.a. the former Killer No. 1
- Hanae Kan as Sayoko, the young girl
- Kenji Sawada as Assassin NO.2
- Jan Woudstra as Painless Surgeon, a.k.a. No. 5
- Masatoshi Nagase as the Man in Black, a.k.a. Dark Horse
- Haruko Kato as Shizuka Orikuchi
Production
[edit | edit source]Hanada is not played by Joe Shishido this time, but by Mikijiro Hira; Suzuki has said that the original intent was for Shishido to play the character again, but that the film's producer, Satoru Ogura, wanted Hira to play the character instead. The reasons for this are still unclear.[3]
Reception
[edit | edit source]On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 78% of 18 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.7/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Pistol Opera at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Pistol Opera at Rotten TomatoesLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Pistol Opera (in Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database