Pistol Opera
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| Directed by | Seijun Suzuki |
| Produced by | Ikki Katashima Satoru Ogura |
| Written by | Kanzunori Itō Takeo Kimura |
| Starring | Makiko Esumi Sayoko Yamaguchi |
| Music by | Kzufumi Kodama |
| Cinematography | Yonezo Maeda |
| Editing by | Akira Suzuki |
| Distributed by | Slow Learner |
| Release date(s) |  October 27, 2001 |
| Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Preceded by | Branded to Kill |
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Pistol Opera (ピストルオペラ Pisutoru opera?) is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Makiko Esumi. It is a remake and/or sequel of Suzuki's 1967 Branded to Kill. The plots of both films involve a third-ranked hitman deposing the top-ranked hitman to claim his/her throne.
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[edit] Synopsis
The film's main character, Miyuki Minazuki (Makiko Esumi), is the highest ranked female hitman in The Guild, who encounters the now-elderly and partially crippled Goro Hanada from the first movie.
[edit] Cast
- Makiko Esumi as Miyuki Minazuki, aka Stray Cat, aka Killer No. 3
- Sayoko Yamaguchi as Sayoko Uekyo
- Masatoshi Nagase as the Man in Black, aka Dark Horse
- Kan Hanae as ...
- Mikijiro Hira as Goro Hanada, aka The Champ, aka the former No. 1
- Kirin Kiki as ... Minazuki's grandmother
- Haruko Kato as ...
- Yeong-he-Han as Sayoko, the young girl
- Jan Woudstra as Painless Surgeon, aka No. 5
[edit] 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.[1] The reasons for this are still unclear.
[edit] References
- ^ Mes, Tom (October 2001). Review: Pistol Opera. Midnight Eye. Retrieved on March 18, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Pistol Opera at the Internet Movie Database
- (Japanese) Pistol Opera at the Japanese Movie Database
| Japanese Cinema |  |
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| Films directed by Seijun Suzuki | ||
| 1950s | Victory Is Mine | Pure Emotions of the Sea | Satan's Town | Inn of the Floating Weeds | Eight Hours of Terror | The Naked Woman and the Gun | Underworld Beauty | Spring Never Came | Young Breasts | Voice Without a Shadow | Love Letter | Passport to Darkness | Age of Nudity | |
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| 1960s | Take Aim at the Police Van | Sleep of the Beast | Clandestine Zero Line | Everything Goes Wrong | Fighting Delinquents | Tokyo Knights | The Big Boss Who Needs No Gun | Man with a Shotgun | A New Wind Over the Mountain Pass | Blood Red Water in the Channel | Million Dollar Smash and Grab | Teen Yakuza | The Guys Who Put Money on Me | Detective Bureau 23: Go to Hell, Bastards! | Youth of the Beast | The Bastard | Kanto Wanderer | The Flower and the Angry Waves | Gate of Flesh | Our Blood Will Not Forgive | Story of a Prostitute | Story of a Bastard: Born Under a Bad Star | Tattooed Life | Carmen of Kawachi | Tokyo Drifter | Fighting Elegy | Branded to Kill | |
| 1970s | A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness | |
| 1980s | Zigeunerweisen |Kagero-za | Capone Cries a Lot | Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon | |
| 1990s | Yumeji | Marriage | |
| 2000s | Pistol Opera | Princess Raccoon | |
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