Japan Synopsis
デス・ビリヤード
“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.”
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 2012–2014 Japan Window
530 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Death Billiards sits at position #181.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Death Billiards. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
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The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Death Billiards premiered. 1769 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,575 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (66th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.4 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Animation productions specifically: #1,160 of 2,532 (top 46%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Madhouse |
| Runtime | 25m |
| Release Date | March 1, 2013 |
| IMDb | tt2807626 |
| Official Site | www.vap.co.jp |