Tokyo Drifter
19661h 23mNo ratings yet
- Action
- Crime
- Thriller
Overview
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.
Keywords
- 1960s
- hitman
- japan
- yakuza
- tokyo
- japanese noir
- japanese new wave
- tokyo, japan
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 10, 1966
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- English, Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Nikkatsu Corporation
- Cast
- Eiji Gō,Kiyoshi Ôba,Wataru Kobayashi,Tessen Nakahira,Takeshi Yoshida,Akira Hisamatsu,Yōko Yokota,Ken Mizoguchi,Mitsuru Sawa,Shinzō Shibataand 21 more
- Director
- Seijun Suzuki
- Writer
- Kōhan Kawauchi
- Producer
- Tetsuro Nakagawa
- Cinematography
- Shigeyoshi Mine
- Music
- Hajime Kaburagi
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0061101