Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Ezumi

Director: Seijun Suzuki

Summary: Ace fighter Tetsu is recalled to Tokyo to help out his former employer who is embroiled in gang warfare. Japanese dialogue.

Maverick Japanese director Seijun Suzuki turns the traditional yakuza gangster film on its ear with this stylish, intentionally oblique tale of a gangster whose maddening dependence on long-obsolete honor codes spurs rivals and even his own bosses to hunt him down.
To experience a film by this B-movie visionary is to experience Japanese cinema in all its frenzied, voluptuous excess. In 1966, Suzuki's studio ordered him 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 (Tetsuya Watari), tries to go straight, but is thwarted every step of the way.

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Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	Japanese
Region:	Region 0
Special Features:	Scene Access
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1966
Release Date:	February 25, 2002
Runtime:	82 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	2 N D V D 3033
Keywords:	Action, Subtitled, General, Wide, Screen, Tokyo, Drifter, Adventure, Nagaremono
Genre:	Action/Adventure