Pistol Opera
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Genre: Thriller, Crime Fiction, Action, World cinema, Crime Thriller, Drama, Japanese Movies
Year: 2001
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese Language
Starring: Makiko Esumi, Masatoshi Nagase, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Mikijiro Hira, Kenji Sawada, Haruko Kato, Hanae Kan, Kirin Kiki, Tomio Aoki, Yoji Tanaka
Pistol Opera (ピストルオペラ, Pisutoru Opera) is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Makiko Esumi. As one of Seijun's last fims, it is related to Suzuki's 1967 Branded to Kill, either as a remake or sequel. The plots of both films involve a third-ranked hitman deposing the top-ranked hitman to claim the top rank.
The film's main character, Miyuki Minazuki, ranked number three in The Assassins Guild, known as the "Stray Cat". A stoic and deadly woman, she is forced to deal with the crumbling Guild, and crazy state of affairs, seeking out the cause of all this, "Hundred Eyes". She lives in a Japanese home with her Grandmother, and her weapon is a pistol.
Former number one, now crippled and retired to an honorary ranking of number zero "The Champ" Goro Hanada is an acquaintance of Stray Cat's, 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
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