1998 · crime · drama · avant-garde
Bullet Ballet
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto1h 27m1998
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
Our read: Bullet Ballet (1998) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive crime · drama · avant-garde entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, breathless, extreme crime / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- cold
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“You want raw Japanese B&W noir about grief, guns, and urban despair after suicide.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if suicide themes, nihilism, and sudden bloody violence will wreck you.
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