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Tokyo Drifter (1966) More at IMDbPro »Tôkyô nagaremono (original title)
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8 items from 2012
DVD Playhouse--February 2012
25 February 2012 8:40 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
DVD Playhouse—February 2012
By Allen Gardner
To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Robert Mulligan’s film of Harper Lee’s landmark novel pits a liberal-minded lawyer (Gregory Peck) against a small Southern town’s racism when defending a black man (Brock Peters) on trumped-up rape charges. One of the 1960s’ first landmark films, a truly stirring human drama that hits all the right notes and isn’t dated a bit. Robert Duvall makes his screen debut (sans dialogue) as the enigmatic Boo Radley. DVD and Blu-ray double edition. Bonuses: Two feature-length documentaries: Fearful Symmetry and A Conversation with Gregory Peck; Featurettes; Excerpts and film clips from Gregory Peck’s Oscar acceptance speech and AFI Lifetime Achievement Award; Commentary by Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS 2.0 mono.
Outrage: Way Of The Yakuza (Magnolia) After a brief hiatus from his signature oeuvre of Japanese gangster flicks, »
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Tokyo Drifter (The Criterion Collection)
8 February 2012 9:07 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
Tokyo Drifter defies expectations of the Japanese gangster film, but no just because of its prevalent use of music, but because its editing and structure make it absurdly difficult to follow the first time through. The narrative seems to jump indiscriminately halfway between one scene and the next and the viewer has to make an effort to connect the events as the film clips along. The story is certainly linear in its telling, but how it’s presented by Director Seijun Suzuki comes closer to a rock skipping over the surface of a pond with each jump a little shorter until it becomes a rapid series of small cuts and finally sinks into its ending. Luckily the story that the viewer pieces together, about a gang attempting to turn legitimate and leave their underhanded ways behind them with a real estate deal, affords them the chance to reconcile the film »
- Lex Walker
Branded to Kill Blu Ray Review
20 January 2012 1:39 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Branded to Kill Directed by Seijun Suzuki Written by Hachiro Guru Starring: Joe Shishido, Koji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa Like 'Tokyo Drifter', Seijun Suzuki's 'Branded to Kill' is a strange, quirky, moody gangster picture that goes out of its way to poke holes in the tropes of this sub-genre while also indulging in some sixties pop cinema. While the film's characters and plot are sometimes tough to penetrate, Suzuki's sense of style and his gleeful mocking of genre conventions is the real draw here. The plot of 'Branded to Kill' is rooted in simple genre beats yet still comes across as characteristically over-complicated. To simplify; hitman Goro Handa and his wife Mami catch a taxi after arriving in Tokyo. The driver, Kasuga, is a former hitman and asks Goro to help him out on a job in order to break back into the business. »
- Jay C.
DVD: DVD: Tokyo Drifter / Branded To Kill
10 January 2012 10:03 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
During an interview feature on the new Criterion Blu-ray of 1966’s Tokyo Drifter, assistant director Masami Kuzuu discusses some of his favorite visual motifs in the film, and debates their possible symbolic significance. The interview then cuts to Seijun Suzuki, director of Drifter, 1967’s Branded To Kill, and a number of other fever-dream confections. Suzuki dismisses the idea of symbolism entirely. What’s important to him, he says, is that the films are “interesting.” Any artistic statements of intent should be taken with a healthy amount of salt, especially coming from the elusively impressionistic Suzuki, but as an »
Hideaki Nitani, 1930 - 2012
9 January 2012 1:48 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Hideaki Nitani and Yujiro Ishihara
in Toshio Masuda's Red Handkerchief (1964)
Via Cinema Strikes Back
"Sad news the weekend for fans of Nikkatsu action films of the 1960s," writes Chris MaGee at J-Film Pow-Wow. "Actor Hideaki Nitani, best known for his supporting roles in such films as Underworld Beauty and Tokyo Drifter, died of pneumonia on Saturday, January 7th at a Tokyo hospital. He was 81…. In 1954 Nikkatsu had finally begun to produce films again after having temporarily shuttering itself during the post-war Us Occupation. Joining Nitani during this hiring blitz were stars like Akira Kobayashi, Yujiro Ishihara and Jo Shishido. Nitani made his screen debut in 1956 in Takumi Furukawa's The People of Okinawa. This would begin a string of roles, mostly as tough guys and gangsters, in the films of Seijun Suzuki, Yuzo Kawashima, Ko Nakahira, and Koreyoshi Kurahara, amongst others."
From the Mainichi Daily News: "Nitani shifted his »
Tokyo Drifter: Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
8 January 2012 7:32 PM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
In 1966, The Nikkatsu Corporation charged Seijun Suzuki with making a serious film promoting not only one of their up and coming star, Tetsuya Watari, but also to use the movie as a means to popularize the theme song that would accompany it. What Suzuki would deliver is Tokyo Drifter; a film filled with stylistic violence, sporadic editing and a load of unintentional surrealism, not to mention a hero with a plastic toy gun and a penchant for singing.
On paper, Tokyo Drifter sounds like a rather straight-forward tale. A young man, Tetsu (Watari) and his boss Kurata (Ryuji Kita) have decided to leave their life of crime and violence behind and have chosen to become respectable men. This does not bode well with rival crime boss Tanaka (Eiji Go) who, after being unable to provoke Tetsu through violence, sets him and his boss up in a murder in order to »
Film Junk Podcast Episode #351: The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse and Best of 2011
2 January 2012 10:06 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
0:00 - Intro 6:25 - Review: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn 42:45 - Review: War Horse 1:14:45 - Feature: Best and Worst of 2011 2:29:40 - Other Stuff We Watched: Warrior, Project Nim, Senna, A Christmas Carol, Tokyo Drifter, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Carnage, A Lonely Place to Die, Another Earth, Quatermass and the Pit, 1941, I Saw the Devil, Knuckle, Metal: Evolution, The League 3:18:45 - This Week's DVD Releases 3:20:35 - Outro
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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #126
1 January 2012 11:30 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Happy New Year, I hope your day is going better than mine as I am holed up watching football with a sinus infection, but there is still work to be done as I am putting together my top ten of 2011 for publishing this coming Tuesday. But this week was more about older films than newer ones as on top of the couple of films I mention below I also watched Criterion's Blu-ray editions of Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill and Traffic, all of which I will be discussing in full this coming week, but for now... Zodiac (2007) After watching Traffic I got an urge to pop in David Fincher's Zodiac and as I watched the opening scene I noticed something I hadn't ever before, or at least had never contemplated. When the first couple is shot, the girl appears to think she may actually know who the shooter may be. »
- Brad Brevet
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