is a 2001 Japanese film directed by
Seijun Suzuki
, born (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their florid visual style, absurd humour, and a playful rejection of traditional film grammar. He made 40 predominately ...
and starring
Makiko Esumi
(born 18 December 1966 in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan) is a former Japanese model, actress, writer, essayist, and lyricist. Esumi is most well known for her role as Chinatsu Tsuboi in the Japanese television drama series '' Shomuni''.
Esu ...
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Cast
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Makiko Esumi
(born 18 December 1966 in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan) is a former Japanese model, actress, writer, essayist, and lyricist. Esumi is most well known for her role as Chinatsu Tsuboi in the Japanese television drama series '' Shomuni''.
Esu ...
as Miyuki Minazuki, a.k.a. Stray Cat, a.k.a. Killer No. 3
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Sayoko Yamaguchi
Sayoko Yamaguchi (Japanese: 山口小夜子, September 19, 1949 – August 14, 2007) was a Japanese model and actress.
Early life
Yamaguchi was born in Yokohama and graduated from Sugino Gakuen's Dressmaker Gakuin design school in Tokyo.
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as Sayoko Uekyo
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Kirin Kiki
was a Japanese actress for Japanese cinema and television.
Biography
Kiki was born on January 15, 1943, in Kanda, Tokyo. Her father was a master of the ''biwa'' lute and a former police officer. Her mother owned a cafe in Jinbōchō, Tokyo an ...
as Minazuki's grandmother
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Mikijiro Hira as Goro Hanada, a.k.a. The Champ, a.k.a. the former Killer No. 1
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Hanae Kan as Sayoko, the young girl
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Kenji Sawada
is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and actor, best known for being the vocalist for the Japanese rock band The Tigers. Nicknamed because of his self-professed adoration of Julie Andrews, he was born in Tsunoi, Iwami (now part of Totto ...
as Assassin NO.2
* Jan Woudstra as Painless Surgeon, a.k.a. No. 5
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Masatoshi Nagase
is a Japanese actor and singer. He is best known in the West for his roles in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's ''Cold Fever'' and Jim Jarmusch's ''Mystery Train (film), Mystery Train''.
Nagase was described by Todd Brown of Twitch Film as "one of t ...
as the Man in Black, a.k.a. Dark Horse
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Haruko Kato
was a Japanese actress.
Biography
Haruko Kato was born in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, on 24 November 1922. After training at acting school, she was signed up with the film production company Toho in 1939, debuting in ' in the same year.
She marri ...
as Shizuka Orikuchi
Production
Hanada is not played by
Joe Shishido
was a Japanese actor recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film ''Branded to Kill'' (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickna ...
this time, but by
Mikijiro Hira; Suzuki has said that the original intent was for Shishido to play the character again, but that the film's producer, Satoru Ogura, wanted Hira to play the character instead. The reasons for this are still unclear.
References
External links
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Pistol Opera' at the
Japanese Movie Database
The , more commonly known as simply JMDb, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database but lists only those films initially released in Japan. Y. ...
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2001 films
2000s avant-garde and experimental films
2001 crime thriller films
Films about contract killing
Films directed by Seijun Suzuki
Girls with guns films
Japanese avant-garde and experimental films
2000s Japanese-language films
Japanese sequel films
Shochiku films
2000s Japanese films