Bullet Ballet

Picked up Shinya Tsukamoto's Bullet Ballet at Kinokuniya Book Store on West 49th Street today. "...Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo, Hiroko The Goblin) continues his investigation into the deviant symbiosis of city and citizen in the highly acclaimed Bullet Ballet. Goda (Shinya Tsukamoto), a successful director of commercials, has his life taken apart by the suicide of his girlfriend, who has shot herself with a gun that she was holding for a friend. Becoming obsessed by the need to possess a Smith and Wesson Chief's Special, Goda begins his willful downward descent into a whirlpool of violence. The film traces his efforts to access the Special and his dawning realization of the use he is to make of it. Shot in luminous black and white, this disturbing production maps out the deep need of humanity to make war; in fact, its need to create war." Don't miss the turbo-charged Bullet Ballet Trailers.