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Death Billiards

2013-03-01 · 25 min · ★ 7.2

Animation · Drama · Mystery

Death Billiards is one of the four anime works that each received 38 million yen (about US$480,000) from the "2012 Young Animator Training Project." Just like in 2010 and 2011, the animation labor group received 214.5 million yen (US$2.65 million) from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and it distributed most of those funds to studios who train young animators on-the-job. An old and a young man find themselves in a mysterious bar where they have to play a game of billiard. The bet: their lives.

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Directors
Yuzuru Tachikawa
Production companies
Madhouse
Countries
Japan
Status
Released

Top Cast

Yuichi NakamuraYuichi NakamuraOtoko (Voice)
Tomoaki MaenoTomoaki MaenoDecim (voice)
Asami SetoAsami SetoKurokami no Onna (voice)
Jun HazumiJun HazumiRoujin (voice)

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