Tokyo Drifter

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Tokyo Drifter ★★ Tokyo Nagaremono 1966

Surreal yakuza film follows an honorable gangster hunted by both his own bosses and a rival mob, who chase him across Japan. Lots of camera trickery. Japanese with subtitles. 83m/C VHS, DVD . JP Eiji Go, Chieko Matsubara, Tetsuya Watari, Tamio Kawaji, Hideaki Nitani, Ryuji Kita; D: Seijun Suzuki; W: Yasunori Kawauchi; C: Shigeyoshi Mine; M: So Kaburagi.