Tokyo Drifter | reviewed by: William O'Donnell | December 30, 2011
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Plenty of 1960s "Mod" style helps influence the esthetics of this gangster picture. Worthy of both the silver screen and the art house.
| genre | Crime | foreign |
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| synopsis | Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars, Tetsu must become a drifter to keep the pressure off his old boss |
| lead actors | Tetsuya Watari | Chieko Matsubara | Hideaki Nitani | Ryuji Kita | Tsuyoshi Yoshida | Eimei Esumi | Tamio Kawaji | Eiji Go | Tochiko Hamakawa | Isao Tamagawa | Michio Hino | Shuntaro Tamamura | Hiroshi Midorigawa | Hiroshi Chô | Kosuke Hisamatsu |
| director | Seijun Suzuki |