Should you watch Death Billiards?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Death Billiards
Anime · 2013
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.
The sides of Death Billiards
- An old man and a young man in a strange bar
- A game of billiards with their lives at stake
- A silent bartender watching them
Death Billiards is good for you if…
- you like working out where these two men are and why.
- you like a single game where every shot matters.
- you like a bar that seems to exist outside the world.
Death Billiards is bad for you if…
- you don't watch anime.
- you won't read subtitles.
About: death · judgement · human nature
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