Tokyo Drifter

Tokyo Drifter (Japanese: 東京流れ者, Tōkyō Nagaremono) is a 1966 crime film of the Japanese Director Seijun Suzuki.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == When the old gangster boss Kurata decided to lift his gang and now to concentrate on legal activities, also admits his young employee Tetsu the criminal life behind. The old rivals of the Otsuka-gang can see a chance to expand their terrain. They try Kurata steal a building, but this failed due to the intervention of Tetsu. However, Kurata at the confrontation between Otsaku and kill. Tetsu is so loyal to the suspicion that he hath done in trespassing therein Kurata and flight. Tatsu and Tanaka, the men of Otsaku, put the pursuit. Tetsu escaped the death with the help of Kenji, a deserter from the ranks of Otsuka. When Tetsu understands that an agreement with Otsaku Kurata has thrown on it, with his life as small change, he decides to return to Tokyo for an ultimate confrontation. ==Style[ Edit] == The mise-en-scene and overall style of Tokyo Drifter is very stylized and graphic. Film critic Nikolaos Vryzidis claims that the style of the film is based on a number of different film genres, but it brings in the most reminiscent of European avant-garde films from the 60 '.
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 * 3 Production
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At times the movie, for example, seems to be very inspired by westerns. The whistling of the protagonist Tetsu reminiscent of cowboy heroes. Halfway through the movie breaks a large bargevecht from, this scene must be a direct parody of western films. Everyone in the salon joins the brawl against the American sailors and comical violence used. No one touches really permanently injured, despite the large-scale violence of the scene.

Tokyo Drifter makes a lot of use of color on a very extravagant and almost unrealistic way. This is done intentionally to make the movie a graphics, comic book-like feeling and style to give. This was not only for the ornamental, but also served to in many cases, the atmosphere of the scene and the personality or mood of the characters see. Change the wallpaper at certain times even in color.

The film opens in stylised black-and-white where use is made of high contrast. Then the movie in vivid colors in subsequent scenes.

Most of the film is set in Tokyo which on a highly stylized and colorful way is shown. The begintiteling consists of a series pictures of the greater Tokyo area, intended to the feel of the city to display short and to the point.

Most of the film uses very colorful sceneries that much resemble theatrical sets. It is only later in the movie when ends up in a new, pure white snow-covered environment Tetsu, which gives the movie a whole new visual style. The last scenes in the nightclub are also using an almost white decor which is only interrupted by the Red of the blood what floating around.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Director Seijun Suzuki hit after making Tokyo Drifter in problems with distribution company Nikkatsu (which is mainly known for producing budget B-movies) because of its extremely stylized, colorful and bizarre view of what should have been a "normal" gangster film. Nikkatsu forbade the Seijun Suzuki and then still colors to make films. ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Tokyo Drifter is the 38th of 40 B-movies that Director Seijun Suzuki made between 1956 and 1967 for the Nikkatsufilm studio. His idiosyncratic style alienated him from the studio bosses, which drastically reduced the budget for this film. However, this had the opposite effect. Suzuki would be Branded to Kill with the peak of its alienating style delivery, after which he was fired by the studio. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Tetsuya Watari: Tetsu
 * Chieko Matsubara: Chiharu
 * Hideaki Nitani: Kenji
 * Hideaki Esumi: Otsuka
 * Tamio Kawaji: Tatsu
 * Eiji Gō: Tanaka