BULLET BALLET

Details

• Release Year: 1998
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man) continues his investigation into the deviant symbiosis of city and citizen in the highly acclaimed Bullet Ballet. ; ; Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto), a successful director of commercials, has his life taken apart by the suicide of his girlfriend, who has shot herself with a gun that she was holding for a friend. Becoming obsessed by the need to possess a Smith and Wesson Chief's Special, Goda begins his willfull downward descent into a whirlpool of violence. The film traces his efforts to access the Special and his dawning realization of the use he is to make of it. ; ; Shot in luminous black and white, this disturbing production maps out the deep need of humanity to make war; in fact, its need to create war.
• Cast: Shinya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura, Takahiro Murase, Kyôka Suzuki, Hisashi Igawa
• Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
• Runtime: 1:27
• Company: Kauyu Theater, Artsmagic DVD
• Media Format: Movie