Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Tôkyô nagaremono
82 min
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.
- Release date
- April 10, 1966
- Country of origin
- Japan
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Cast
- Tetsuya Watari as Tetsuya 'Phoenix Tetsu' Hondo
- Chieko Matsubara as Chiharu
- Hideaki Nitani as Kenji Aizawa
- Tamio Kawachi as Tatsuzo, The Viper
- Eiji Gō as Tanaka
- Tomoko Hamakawa as Mutsuko
- Takeshi Yoshida as Keiichi
- Isao Tamagawa as Umetani
- Eimei Esumi as Otsuka
- Ryūji Kita as Kurata
- Yūzō Kiura as Fujimura
- Hiroshi Chō as Kumamoto
- Shuntarō Tamamura as Koyanagi
- Michio Hino as Yoshii
- Shinzō Shibata
- Yū Izumi as Detective Sakai
- Masaaki Honme
- Wataru Kobayashi
- Iwae Arai
- Yōko Yokota
- Tessen Nakahira
- Ken Mizoguchi
Crew
- Seijun Suzuki · Director
- Kôhan Kawauchi · Writer
- Tetsurô Nakagawa · Producer
- Hajime Kaburagi · Composer
- Shigeyoshi Mine · Cinematographer
- Shin'ya Inoue · Editor
- Takeo Kimura · Production designer