Bullet Ballet

Tokyo night. Neon smears the sidewalk. A man’s girlfriend hangs from a bare bulb, then vanishes; the room smells of burnt wire. He carves a hollow in the pavement with his shoes, hunting a weapon that might silence his own pulse. A decade before the bullet-returning films that followed.

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Shinya Tsukamoto directed Bullet Ballet in 1998. See Shinya Tsukamoto's full filmography, where to start with Shinya Tsukamoto, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shinya Tsukamoto.

Bullet Ballet was released in 1998 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 87 minutes.