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Pistol Opera (ピストルオペラ, Pisutoru Opera) is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Makiko Esumi. [1] [2] Storyline. The film's main character, Miyuki Minazuki, ranked number three in The Assassins Guild, is known as the "Stray Cat".
Thirty-four years after the original release of Branded to Kill, Suzuki directed Pistol Opera (2001), a loose sequel co-produced by Shochiku and filmed at Nikkatsu. The character Goro Hanada returns as a mentor figure to the new Number Three, played by Makiko Esumi .
Oct 6, 2022 · We’ll go on to discuss the very loose sequel, released some 34 years later, Pistol Opera, his penultimate film. Download on Soundcloud | Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe via feed. Branded to Kill. Branded to Kill started life as another B
This is not the case, however, with Seijun Suzuki’s Pistol Opera/Pisutoru Opera (Japan, 2001), the long-awaited sequel to his incomprehensible yakuza film Branded to Kill/Koroshi no rakuin (Japan, 1967), for which he was fired by the Nikkatsu Corporation, the studio under which he made his first films.
- Temenuga Trifonova
- 2011
Jun 10, 2003 · Cast. Under the not-unreasonable charge that his films made no sense and no money, Japanese cult director Seijun Suzuki was fired from B-movie house Nikkatsu Studios after making 1967's Branded...
May 21, 2016 · When producer Satoru Ogura suggested Suzuki make a sequel to his most notorious film, Branded to Kill, the result was this eye-popping action extravaganza, which is less a sequel than a compact retrospective of Suzuki’s style and themes, updated with CGI effects and infused with the metaphysical concerns of the Taisho Trilogy.
May 15, 2016 · Japan, 1967, DCP, black & white, 91 min. Japanese with English subtitles. DCP source: Janus Films. This fractured film noir is the final provocation that got Suzuki fired from Nikkatsu Studios, simultaneously making him a counterculture hero and putting him out of work for a decade.
