Bullet Ballet (1998)

Original title

バレット・バレエ

Directed by

Shinya Tsukamoto

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 145 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After his girlfriend kills herself, a man tries to get a gun so he can do the same. He gets pulled into violent gang fights while searching for the weapon.

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What happens

Bullet Ballet (Japanese: バレット・バレエ, Hepburn: Baretto barē) is a 1998 Japanese film directed by and starring Shinya Tsukamoto, and co-starring Hisashi Igawa, Sujin Kim, Kirina Mano, Takahiro Murase, Tatsuya Nakamura and Kyōka 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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