Bullet Ballet
Film Poster
Bullet Ballet is a 1998 Japanese film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto . The film is stylized with an amateur style (trembling camera, low definition, black and white filming).
The following weapons were used in the film Bullet Ballet :
Revolvers
Smith & Wesson Model 36
Kiriko (Kyôka Suzuki ) and later, Goda (Shin'ya Tsukamoto ) is seen armed with the Smith & Wesson Model 36 . The revolver is also briefly used by Goto (Takahiro Murase) and Idei (Tatsuya Nakamura).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Smith & Wesson Model 36 - .38 Special - 5 shot. First pattern with flat latch cylinder release.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Kiriko aims her revolver.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing She gives the gun to Goda.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Goda holds the M36.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Goda aims the S&W.
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Smith & Wesson Model 37
Goda's girlfriend uses a Smith & Wesson Model 37 to kill herself.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing A picture of the revolver.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The revolver as it appears in a flashback.
Single Action Army (Airsoft)
Numerous airsoft Single Action Army revolvers can be seen at the gun shop.
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Hand-made Revolver
Goda unsuccessfully uses a Hand-made Revolver to shoot Idei (Tatsuya Nakamura).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Goda aims his revolver.
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Pistols
Walther P38 (squirt gun)
Goda is tricked into buying a fake Walther P38 .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Walther P38 pistol (manufactured at the Mauser Factory) - World War II dated - 9x19mm
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M1911A1
Kudo (Hisashi Igawa ) uses an M1911A1 . Another (airsoft) M1911A1 can be seen at the gun shop.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Kudo aims the pistol...
Error creating thumbnail: File missing ...while beeng held at gunpoint by Goda.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing The airsoft 1911 is seen in the center of the frame.
Taurus PT99
Two airsoft Taurus PT99 pistols can be seen at the gun shop.
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Tokarev TT-33
The Tokarev TT-33 can be seen in a promotional image, but not in the complete film.
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Trivia
Numerous weapons can be seen during the archive footage.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing The ship's cannons are fired.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing The naval ship's cannons. The ship is either a cruiser or a destroyer.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing This footage shows the twin turrets, which likely identifies it as a Colorado-class, armed with 8 16-inch guns.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A warship in the background on the left appears similar to Japanese battleships with very high superstructures(in the US Navy, this detail of Japanese battleships was nicknamed the "pagoda"). This is possibly a photo of the Battle of Surigao Strait of 25 October 1944 when Japanese battleship Yamashiro was sunk by six 14- and 16-inch US battleships, as described above.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing The field cannon is reloaded.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing A French 75mm Mle 1897 field gun. The uniform of the gunner isn't French however, as he wears a typical British helmet.
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[[Image:Bullet Ballet footage 4.jpg|thumb|600px|none|The launchers are fired.]
[[Image:Bullet Ballet footage 7.jpg|thumb|600px|none|A group of (possibly Communist Chinese) soldiers with the Degtyaryov DP-28 ...]]
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Communist Chinese soldier fires his Degtyaryov DP-28 .
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing A US destroyer, armed with 5-inch main guns and twin 40mm Bofors .
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Book
Two fireams can be seen in a book.
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