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Tokyo Drifter

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Tokyo Drifter (1966)

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Reviews Counted: 6

Fresh: 6

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 7.2/10

Runtime: 83 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: To experience a film by Japanese B-movie visionary Seijun Suzuki is to experience Japanese cinema in all its frenzied, voluptuous excess. In 1966, the studio ordered Suzuki to tow the line with what was intended to be a routine potboiler... To experience a film by Japanese B-movie visionary Seijun Suzuki is to experience Japanese cinema in all its frenzied, voluptuous excess. In 1966, the studio ordered Suzuki to tow the line with what was intended to be a routine potboiler about a recently retired Yakuza.The result was this thrilling fantasia in which the hero Tetsu tries to go straight but is thwarted by his formal rivals every step of the way. Like other ignored Japanese directors of his wartime generation, Suzuki took refuge from Japan's militarism in a doctrine of mutability. He had lived amid annihilation and it was necessary to view oneself objectively, even to the point where mutability appeared pathetic and humorous at the same time. It was even necessary to discover a certain masochistic pleasure in the abnormal experience that shook one's core, which is why this film, like many of his best, resembles a masochistic cartoon. [More]

Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Tamio Kawachi

Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Tamio Kawachi, Ryuji Kita

Director: Seijun Suzuki

Director: Seijun Suzuki
Screenwriter: Yasunori Kawauchi
Producer: Tetsuro Nakagawa
Composer: So Kaburagi

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Mar 9, 1999

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Single Layer

Audio:

  • 1. Subtitles - English - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • 1. Interview - Seijun Suzuki

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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.

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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.

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Inspired lunacy.

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Filled with flights of outrageous excesses.

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Narrative common sense is abandoned for fractured, highly satisfying storytelling.

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A 1966 yakuza gangster thriller with a pop-art look by the formidable B-movie director Seijun Suzuki.

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