Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 0
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Tokyo Drifter stands with Branded to Kill as one of the best-known and most acclaimed films of Seijun Suzuki, one of Japan's most talented maverick directors. A colorful riot of an action drama, Tokyo Drifter, like many of Suzuki's films, transforms a standard gangster film plot into a vehicle for his own loopy brand of filmmaking, featuring gorgeous cinematography, unconventional storytelling techniques, and a dark sense of humor. This particular example centers on Tetsu, a yakuza member who,
Apr 10, 1966 Wide
Feb 23, 1999
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Tetsuya Watari
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Hideaki Nitani
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Inspired lunacy.
Top CriticA 1966 yakuza gangster thriller with a pop-art look by the formidable B-movie director Seijun Suzuki.
A style that works only with a sure hand.
...plays like a mix of spaghetti western and samurai melodrama relocated to the pop-art splendor of 1960s Japan...
It's the camera trickery and the playful art direction that send up the entire image of the badass yakuza to begin with.
Distills the aesthetic of the 1960s into one feature-length blast.
A falta de coesão narrativa é mais do que compensada pelo visual marcante concebido por Suzuki, que cria uma fantasia psicodélica através da direção de arte estilizada, da fotografia com cores marcantes e da música-tema repetida continuamente.
magine what a yakuza thriller might look like if it were codirected by Jean-Luc Godard and John Woo, adding a little Sergio Leone and Jean-Pierre Melville, then multiplied by 10.
Filled with flights of outrageous excesses.
Narrative common sense is abandoned for fractured, highly satisfying storytelling.
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Foreign Titles
- Tokyo Drifter (Tokyo nagaremono) (UK)
- Tokyo Drifter (Tokyo nagaremono) (CA)
