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7.2/10   1,849 votes
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Director:
Seijun Suzuki
Writer:
Kôhan Kawauchi (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
10 April 1966 (Japan) more
Genre:
Action | Crime | Drama more
Plot:
Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars... more | add synopsis
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Seijun Suzuki's Masterwork... more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Tetsuya Watari ... Tetsuya 'Phoenix Tetsu' Hondo
Chieko Matsubara ... Chiharu
Hideaki Nitani ... Kenji Aizawa
Ryuji Kita ... Kurata
Tsuyoshi Yoshida ... Keiichi
Hideaki Esumi ... Otsuka
Tamio Kawaji ... Tatsuzo, The Viper
Eiji Go ... Tanaka
Tochiko Hamakawa ... Mutsuko
Isao Tamagawa ... Umetani
Michio Hino ... Yoshii
Shuntaro Tamamura ... Koyanagi
Hiroshi Midorigawa
Hiroshi Cho ... Kumamoto
Kosuke Hisamatsu
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Man from Tokyo
Tokyo Drifter (USA)
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Runtime:
89 min | USA:82 min | Germany:82 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Akasaka, Minato, Japan more
Company:
Nikkatsu more

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Referenced in Spartan (2004) more

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12 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
Seijun Suzuki's Masterwork..., 2 October 2003
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Author: Benjamin Stone (moxy@tmbg.org) from Urbana, Illinois

I will argue until my death that TOKYO DRIFTER is superior to BRANDED TO KILL, but that's for another time...

I am amazed every time I see this film that Suzuki could take such an obviously inferior product -- as Nikkatsu Studios was churning out at an obscene rate in those days, giving directors a script and saying "Shoot it fast and cheap so we can give you your next job" -- and turn it into one of the most beautiful and intriguing films I've ever seen.

Best plot ever? No. Easy to follow? Yes. Beautiful? Yes. And that theme...I could never forget that theme if I tried, even after my first viewing.

I'd ramble on about history and plot and so on, but so many others have, I'll just leave it at this: TOKYO DRIFTER makes me happy every time I see it.

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