Bullet Ballet

Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Japan, 1998

87 mins

7.6 / 10 (744)

Synopsis

Goda is a thirty-something filmmaker with an average life, until he returns home one night to find that his girlfriend Kiriko has committed suicide with a bullet to the head. Why? How did Kiriko get a handgun? To answer these questions, Goda goes on a quest into the criminal underworld of Tokyo.

MUBI's take

In an act of defiance against the apathy of modern living, Shin’ya Tsukamoto delivers a shock to the system with this orgiastic mélange of breakneck violence and dangerous obsessions. Stripped of its urban gloss, the concrete jungle of Tokyo quakes to the delirious poetry of total self-destruction.

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