# Death Billiards (2013)

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**Original title**: *デス・ビリヤード*
**Runtime**: 25 min
**Genres**: Animation, Drama, Mystery
**Directed by**: Yuzuru Tachikawa
**Written by**: Yuzuru Tachikawa
**Starring**: Yuichi Nakamura, Tomoaki Maeno, Asami Seto, Jun Hazumi

> *An old and a young man find themselves in a mysterious bar where they have to play a game of billiard. The bet: their lives.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The neon flicker of an empty bar at midnight. Two strangers, one silvered beard, one ink-stained hands, lean over the emerald table. Queues click like metronomes before the first shot.

A game of billiards begins—every ball struck carries a debt. Lives are the currency.

A single, quiet instant from Masaaki Yuasa’s early palette, where shadows play stake for souls.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, dread, surreal

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