Death Billiards (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.

Released March 1, 2013 25 min 15+

Genres: Animation, Anime, Anime: Psychological, Drama, Mystery, Short

Keywords: tmdb.anime, tmdb.young-animator-training-project, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.anime-animation, tmdb.psychological, imdb.piano, imdb.stabbed + 20 more, imdb.bartender, imdb.hug, imdb.bar, imdb.crying, imdb.blood, imdb.afterlife, imdb.mannequin, imdb.cheating, imdb.stabbed-to-death, imdb.slap, imdb.jellyfish, imdb.anime, imdb.cigarette-smoking, imdb.old-man, imdb.elevator, imdb.slapped-in-the-face, imdb.billiards, imdb.knife, imdb.button, imdb.hand-drawn-animation