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In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Phoenix Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colours got director Seijun Suzuki in trouble with Nikkatsu studio heads, who were put off by his anything-goes, in-your-face aesthetic, equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima. Tokyo Drifter is a delirious highlight of the brilliantly excessive Japanese cinema of the sixties. (Criterion)
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渡哲也
Japan
Best movies:
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Brother (2000)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
松原智恵子
Japan
Best movies:
Dolls (2002)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Eiji Gô
Japan
Best movies:
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
The Yakuza (1974)
Tamio Kawaji
Japan
Best movies:
Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
遠藤太津朗
Japan
Best movies:
Hideaki Nitani
Japan
Best movies:
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
Underworld Beauty (1958)
Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Ryûji Kita
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Zatoichi's Cane-sword (1967)