Pistol Opera

Pistol Opera
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
Release date	October 27, 2001 (2001-10-27)
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.

Cast

• 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

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.

Reception

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

External links

• Pistol Opera at IMDb
• Pistol Opera at Rotten Tomatoes
• Pistol Opera (in Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database