#tokyo drifter 1966

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Tokyo Drifter (1966)

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tokyo drifter, seijun suzuki |1966|

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[dynamoe]

Looking at various posters/DVD covers of Tokyo Drifter (1966), a yakuza movie with stylized art direction and hyper-bright colors. In some scenes the backgrounds were just a block of color.

This is the current Criterion cover

looks too high fashion to me.

I remembered the old DVD having a cartoon cover but I found this...

But it's worse than I remember. I like the idea of it, but it feels really dated-in-a-bad-way.

Tokyo Drifter, a Seijun Suzuki movie.

[amrv-5]

Wahoo!! Happy (almost) New Year, and happy retrospective listmaking season!! I had an insane year for movies (308 this year, and 297 new to me), and a ton of trouble narrowing them down to 90 new favorites, much less nine, so I'm giving myself a cheater's runners-up list below the cut -- all of which might as well be on my top 9, too. Links go to letterboxd:

Blow-Up (1966), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

Pickpocket (1959), dir. Robert Bresson

Tokyo Drifter (1966), dir. Seijun Suzuki

Horse Feathers (1932), dir. Norman Z. McLeod

Blue (1993), dir. Derek Jarman

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

A Woman is a Woman (1961), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Daisies (1966), Věra Chytilová

Grand Illusion (1937), dir. Jean Renoir

As for runners-up: most any of these could have ended up in my top 9. They're all amazing, or had a strong impact on me, or were affecting or fascinating in some way -- and I'm still leaving off an unbelievable number. Anyway, here they are, in no order:

Taste of Cherry (1997), dir. Abbas Kiarostami

Opening Night (1977), dir. John Cassavetes

The Crowd (1928), dir. King Vidor

Dragon Inn (1967), dir. King Hu

Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018), Bi Gan

The Third Man (1949), dir. Carol Reed

Le Samouraï (1967), dir. Jean-Pierre Melville

Xala (1975), dir. Ousmane Sembène

The Exiles (1961), dir. Kent MacKenzie

Cure (1997), dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa

American Dreams (Lost and Found) (1984), dir. James Benning

Sholay (1975), dir. Ramesh Sippy

To Be or Not to Be (1942), dir. Ernst Lubitsch

A Face in the Crowd (1957), dir. Elia Kazan

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), dir. Chantal Akerman

Pather Panchali (1955), dir. Satyajit Ray

Closely Watched Trains (1966), dir. Jiří Menzel

The Double Life of Véronique (1991), dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski

High Anxiety (1977), dir. Mel Brooks

Two-way tie for A Matter of Life and Death (1946), dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and Peeping Tom (1960), dir. Michael Powell

(also -- sorry to tag so many people and a few that I don't know very well (yet!), but I love learning what people are watching and getting recommendations u are all passionate about -- please feel free to share ur top 9 new-to-you of the year (or more or less) and tag some friends if you'd like, but no pressure if you'd rather not!! @hawkesque @pomegranate @partlyironic @efort @machihunnicutt @honey--wraith @fieryphrazes @captainhunnicutt @persianflaw @writedrunk @andloawhatsit @columbosunday @theberryboy @draftdodgerag @writtenbyalanalda @loopnoid @local-human-disaster @ezrasimp @localpubliclibrary @radioprune @romeythehomie @allulily @bruce-greenwood @slightlychilledbeans @discocaptain @gaysails @jbhoneydew @hyperbo-lee @hearteyespierce @kaviiinsky @kejfeblintz @macbethheadband @theblob1958 @veganthranduil @windmillcrusader @always-a-mad-comet @guckygarnes @asmallcoat and anyone else who sees this and wants to play--if I missed tagging u it was surely an accident!!! or I got intimidated .)

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End of month update - March (+ April 1st)

Hello, all! Sorry that this update is a day late, I didn't get around to posting it yesterday.

This is the end-of-month update, where I post Tumblr’s current top four films that have received the highest percentage of “yes,” “no,” and “haven’t even heard of this movie” votes.

As of today, the top four films with the highest percentage of “yes” votes are:

Finding Nemo (2003) | Shrek (2001) | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | The Lion King (1994)

Next, the top four films with the highest percentage of “no” votes are:

Sausage Party (2016) | Sharknado 2: The Second One (2014) | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) | Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

This top four changed through the new additions of Sausage Party (2016) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), which replaced Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015) and Scarface (1983).

Finally, the top four films with the highest percentage of “haven’t even heard of this movie” votes are:

Monica and Friends: Bonds (2019) | Monsturd (2003) | Heroic Losers (2019) | Death Trance (2005)

This top four changed through the new additions of Monsturd (2003) and Death Trance (2005), which replaced Mahana (2016) and Capernaum (2018)

Currently, The Incredibles (2004) is the still only film to receive absolutely zero “haven’t heard of this” votes.

That’s it for March’s end-of-month update! Remember that you can view last month’s update by clicking here. Additionally, you can view the full ranked Letterboxd lists of movies that have come up on this blog by clicking the following links:

This list is ranked from highest-to-lowest percentage of “yes” votes.

This list is ranked from highest-to-lowest percentage of “no” votes.

This list is ranked from highest-to-lowest percentage of “haven’t even heard of this movie” votes.

Remember to vote on the polls that are currently running: Jane Eyre (2011) | Lady Macbeth (2016) | The Water Diviner (2014) | Thoroughbreds (2017) | Suspiria (2018) | Closely Watched Trains (1966) | Atonement (2007) | The Official Story (1985) | Fright Night (1985) | Ernest & Celestine (2012) | Central Station (1998) | The Hitcher (1986) | The Company of Wolves (1984) | Predestination (2014) | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) | This Is England (2006) | Crimson Peak (2015) | The Love Witch (2016) | Lost in Translation (2003) | Romeo + Juliet (1996) | Santa Claus (1959) | Tokyo Drifter (1966) | A Fistful of Dollars (1964) | Brain Damage (1988) | Society (1989) | Watership Down (1978) | Frankenhooker (1990) | Mars Attacks! (1996) | Super 8 (2011) | Goosebumps (2015) | Goncharov (1973) | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) | The Secret of Moonacre (2008) | Coraline (2009) | The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

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Tôkyô nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter - The Man from Tokyo) 1966 🇯🇵 dir. Seijun Suzuki

"- ¡Eres solitario!. - Tú estás haciendo tu propio camino. Pronto sabrás lo que se siente ser un vagabundo".

"Phoenix" Tetsu es un asesino a sueldo reformado que ha seguido el ejemplo establecido por su jefe, aparentemente arrepentido de su trabajo. Una vez alejado del mundo delincuente, Tetsu se encuentra vagando por las calles de Tokyo, eludiendo a la par que esperando una muerte segura a manos del villano Viper. Tan sólo le queda la compañía de su novia, cantante de un nightclub. (FILMAFFINITY)

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Tokyo Drifter (1966) Seijun Suzuki, theatrical onesheet / movie poster design by Kellerman Design.

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“Tokyo Drifter” (1966) dir. Seijun Suzuki

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Tokyo Drifter Seijun Suzuki Japan, 1966

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hiii brian <3 could u rec any beautiful films about violence

8 diagram pole fighter (lau kar-leung, 1984)

36th chamber of shaolin (lau kar-leung, 1979)

dragon inn (king hu, 1967)

a bittersweet life (kim jee-woon, 2005)

fireworks (takeshi kitano, 1997)

mermaid legend (toshiharu ikeda, 1984)

sparrow (johnnie to, 2008)

lady snowblood (toshiya fujita, 1973)

pedicab driver (sammo hung, 1989)

a better tomorrow II (john woo, 1987)

the great silence (sergio corbucci, 1968)

spl 2 (soi cheang, 2015)

five fingers of death (jeong chang-hwa, 1972)

shogun assassin (kenji misumi, 1980)

dirty ho (lau kar-leung, 1979)

full contact (ringo lam, 1992)

green snake (tsui hark, 1993)

yes, madam! (corey yeun, 1985)

crippled avengers (chang cheh, 1978)

duel to the death (tony ching siu-tung, 1983)

faster faster (carlos saura, 1981)

inferno (dario argento, 1980)

tokyo drifter (seijun suzuki, 1966)

sitting target (douglas hickox, 1972)

shadow (zhang yimou, 2018)

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Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966) X “Never Catch Me” (Flying Lotus feat. Kendrick Lamar, 2014)

An absolutely bonkers and deliciously colorful yakuza film by Seijun Suzuki, matches with the energy of this blistering track by a stacked lineup of Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar & Thundercat. Japanese auteur Seijun Suzuki’s movies are pulpy & delirious, packed to the absolute gills with style, charm, artistry, music & humor.

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tokyo drifter, seijun suzuki |1966|

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Tokyo Drifter (1966)

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just remembered how good tokyo drifter (1966) is it’s such a shame i can’t eat it in three bites like a perfectly ripe plum

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Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966)

Finally got to see this one. Just great. So much fun, and so stylish! Beyond, of course, the colors*, it's a movie about very specific short distances. The protagonist at one point whispers to himself that his gun has an effective range of 10 meters, and then jumps forward to kill his enemies. The geometry of spaces is what matters, the position of bodies and objects. For instance, a scene where a door opens and a man steps through and immediately falls into a hole (a trap) just beyond it. Even the outdoor scenes have this feeling (the protagonist being followed in the snow on the railway tracks).

* always very obvious with today's shitcolored cinema, everything being muddy and brown. It soothes the soul and eyes to see bright colors and objects in focus.