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.
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery
Stars: Yuichi Nakamura, Tomoaki Maeno, Asami Seto, Jun Hazumi
Crew: Liang Boya (Key Animation), Yuzuru Tachikawa (Screenplay), Yuzuru Tachikawa (Director), Tatsuhiko Komatsu (Key Animation), Yuichi Takahashi (Lead Animator), Hiroyuki Horiuchi (Lead Animator)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Madhouse
Runtime: 25 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 01, 2013
IMDb: 3.7
