Pisutoru opera (2001)

Director:

Seijun Suzuki

Writers:

Kazunori Itô (writer)
Takeo Kimura (writer)

Release Date:

27 October 2001 (Japan)

Genre:

Crime | Action | Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Bizarre | Surreal | Sequel | Surrealism | Avant Garde

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Makiko Esumi	...	Miyuki Minazuki
Sayoko Yamaguchi	...	Sayoko Uekyo
Hanae Kan	...	Sayoko Uekyo
Masatoshi Nagase	...	Man dressed in black
Mikijiro Hira	...	Goro Hanada
Kirin Kiki	...	Rin
Kenji Sawada	...	Man at Tokyo Station
Haruko Kato	...	Shizuka Orikuchi
Tomio Aoki
Yoji Tanaka	...	Koroshi-ya No. 7
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yoshiyuki Morishita	...	Killer no.9
Kensaku Watanabe		(as Sakutarô Inui)
Jan Woudstra	...	Painless Surgeon

Also Known As:

Pistol Opera (International: English title)

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

DENTSU Music And Entertainment

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: As Uekyo speaks into the camera with a Union Jack draped over her, the boom mike drops into the picture for a second or two, then moves up and out of sight.

Quotes:

Sayoko Uekyo: But not suicides. I want to die gloriously. The killer's runway to die atop the stage, like an actress at the peak of aesthetics.

Movie Connections:

Follows Koroshi no rakuin (1967)

Strange, intriguing, bad, good, everything at once

This Movie was very intriguing to me the first time a saw the trailer. Of course I thought it had some big influence on Kill Bill and apparently I'm not alone. Some people forget sometimes though that this is more of an Opera than a movie, hence the title. It can be very confusing at times and you could be lost from beginning to end. There are selected scenes that are very good, (especially the final fight between the two ladies. Just like this movie this is for a selected audience. The dreams were so theatrical that even though they made no sense to a first time watcher, they were still so beautiful. Imagine this movie in play form, on a stage, which most of the time it is, so that's half of the work done.

Directed perfectly for what the movie had to do, the movie itself may not be perfect, but saying it was bad is just saying you don't like plays or operas. Saying it was boring, confusing, mind boggling bad is okay, but just remember that this is a play, opera, movie, short film, American, Japanese movie all in one.