One of my favourite commentaries for one of Shinya Tsukamoto's very best films. Tom Mes, who wrote a book on Tsukamaoto called Iron Man, is the perfect commentator for this film. He speaks quickly and clearly leaving little dead air and does the most important thing I look for in commentaries: gives a lot of background and points out details in the film itself that I as a viewer had missed.

He is able to place Bullet Ballet into context with the films Tsukamoto made before and after, both in the development of themes and in style (this was Tsukamoto's return to black and white after filming Tetsuo II in mostly blue and Tokyo Fist in reds because, as Mes says, he felt it more in tune with the silver of the guns that are so central to the plot).

A commentary I could listen to a number of times and get something more out of each listen - not to mention the film itself being a classic!