Bullet Ballet
Bullet Ballet is a Japanese film directed by and starring Shinya Tsukamoto, and costarring Hisashi Igawa, Sujin Kim, Kirina Mano, Takahiro Murase, Tatsuya Nakamura and Kyoka Suzuki. After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man Shinya Tsukamoto becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
The film was shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival which showcased Japan as their country of focus in the festivals National Cinema program. The show was titled New Beat of Japan, which included Ping Pong Hot Springs, After Life, Beautiful Sunday, Happy Go Lucky and Cure.Variety gave the film a negative review, stating that some may respond to the new thrillers brooding BampW visuals and its spasmodic bursts of hammering violence, most followers of the director will see it merely as more of the same. Time Out gave the film a negative review, describing the film as aggro art, intense, gutfelt but also, like all Tsukamotos work, numbingly overstretched. ........
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