Pistol Opera
Pistol Opera , Pisutoru Opera? is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Makiko Esumi.
Former number one, now crippled and retired to an honorary ranking of number zero The Champ Goro Hanada is an acquaintance of Stray Cats, offering news and unsolicited advice. Stray Cat regards The Champ as a pitiful shadow of a man, and teases him about his failures. For the most part the other members of the guild also treat him as such. The Champ himself remains deluded about his usefulness, and ignores others opinions.Stray Cat receives her assignments from the assassins guild from an enigmatic woman in a white dress named Sayoko Uekyo. As the movie opens they are in the midst of a conversation where Uekyo asks her if she has a man, suggesting some lesbian undertones. The relationship between Stray Cat and Uekyo is open to interpretation, at times the two are friendly, and other times they share mutual disregard. ........
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