Tôkyô nagaremono (1966)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Seijun Suzuki

Writer:

Kôhan Kawauchi (writer)

Release Date:

10 April 1966 (Japan)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama

Plot:

Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars...

Plot Keywords:

Drifter | Yakuza | Gangster | Bar Fight | 1960s

Cast

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 Chô	...	Kumamoto
Kosuke Hisamatsu

Also Known As:

The Man from Tokyo
Tokyo Drifter (USA)

Runtime:

89 min | USA:82 min | Germany:82 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Germany:12 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Akasaka, Minato, Japan

Company:

Nikkatsu

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Spartan (2004)

Bad-Ass

Absolutely incredible. Seijun Suzuki is one of the most underrated directors of all time. His use of coloring and black and white is something that everyone from Steven Spielberg to Brian DePalma to George Romero have emulated to great effect in some of their most well-loved movies. Also, his way of stylizing violence is something that oriental films are still copying. Go check out Pistol Opera, Ichi the Killer, The Killer, or Hard Boiled if you want to see what I mean. The gun-throwing move that Tetsuya utilizes is used in American action movies to this day. It's also amazingly politically incorrect. Americans are lampooned as bumbling, drunken idiots and women are no more than objects to be slapped around and used for a man's benefit. I miss political incorrectness in contemporary movies. The theme song was pretty awesome, as well.