Tokyo Drifter

Japan 1966, 80 minutes
Dir. Seijun Suzuki
In Japanese with English subtitles
Genres: Cult / Gangsters

Aroview: Yakuza thriller dazzlingly exploits the palette of pop art design. Largely incoherent story involves a young punk in a pale blue-suit who gets caught up in gang thuggery, yet it trades magnificently on its visual chutzpah, a great theme song and a terrific finale.

NZ International Film Festival 1994

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4 stars (Very Good) Incredible art design for a 1960s film, this is pop-art on screen, with similar vivid colours and contrasts still used by modern-day directors like Tarantino and Stone. Lacking in substance and coherence, but more than making up for it in style. ~Tom H
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4 stars (Very Good) ~stve
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3 stars (Good Enough) The plot is very familiar but the production has that kind of charm associated with films made cheaply but creatively. ~Tubbs