Pistol Opera

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]

Pistol Opera
Directed by	Seijun Suzuki
Written by	Kazunori Itō Takeo Kimura
Produced by	Ikki Katashima Satoru Ogura
Starring	Makiko Esumi Sayoko Yamaguchi Kirin Kiki Mikijiro Hira Masatoshi Nagase
Cinematography	Yonezo Maeda
Edited by	Akira Suzuki
Music by	Kazufumi Kodama
Production company	Branded to Kill: Pistol Opera Production Committee
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	October 27, 2001 (2001-10-27)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

• Makiko Esumi as Miyuki Minazuki, a.k.a. Stray Cat, a.k.a. Killer No. 3
• Sayoko Yamaguchi as Sayoko Uekyo
• Kirin Kiki as Minazuki's grandmother
• Mikijiro Hira as Goro Hanada, a.k.a. The Champ, a.k.a. the former Killer No. 1
• Hanae Kan as Sayoko, the young girl
• Kenji Sawada as Assassin NO.2
• Jan Woudstra as Painless Surgeon, a.k.a. No. 5
• Masatoshi Nagase as the Man in Black, a.k.a. Dark Horse
• Haruko Kato as Shizuka Orikuchi

Production

Hanada is not played by Joe Shishido 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.^[3]