Man with a Shotgun (1961)
- Original title
- 散弾銃の男
- Directed by
- Seijun Suzuki
- Genre
- Western film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 16 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A singing cowboy and trucker hunts down the men who raped and killed his girlfriend. He drives through the Japanese landscape on a path of revenge.
tensegrittymelancholicslow-burnvisceralaction-drivenbleakretribution-driven
What happens
Man with a Shotgun (散弾銃(ショットガン)の男, Shottogan no Otoko; aka The Man with the Hollow-Tip Bullets) is a 1961 Japanese Western film directed by Seijun Suzuki in the vein of the Nikkatsu Studio's "borderless action cinema". Hideaki Nitani stars as a singing cowboy and trucker who seeks revenge after his girlfriend is raped and murdered. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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