Tokyo Drifter [1966] [Criterion] (BLU)
Seijun Suzuki
Synopsis
In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. Director Seijun Suzuki’s onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colors is equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima—an anything-goes, in-your-face rampage. Tokyo Drifter is a delirious highlight of the brilliantly excessive Japanese cinema of the sixties.
Special Features:
- New high-definition digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Video piece featuring new interviews with director Seijun Suzuki and assistant director Masami Kuzuu
- Interview with Suzuki from 1997
- Trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- A new essay by film critic Howard Hampton
Product Details
- Format: Color, Widescreen
- Language: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Aspect Ratio: 2:35:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: The Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 12/13/2011
- Run Time: 83 minutes
- Catalogue #: 39
- Region: A