Bullet Ballet

Cult Japanese thriller directed by and starring Shin'ya Tsukamoto. When Kiriko (Kyôka Suzuki), his girlfriend of ten years, commits suicide by a gunshot wound to the head, Goda (Tsukamoto) goes in search of the reasons behind her death. Owing to Japan's strict laws, Goda knows that for Kiriko to acquire a pistol she would have needed contacts in the criminal underworld.

Before long Goda is in the midst of ongoing gang warfare and while questioning Kiriko's death he comes face to face with his own mortality...