is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Makiko Esumi.
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.
Reception Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the a score of 75 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
References
External links
Pistol Opera at the Japanese Movie Database