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A Colt Is My Passport

Colt wa ore no passport

Japan

1967

84 Min

Black and White

2.35:1

Japanese

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Nubuo Yamada, Shuichi Nagahara, Nobuo Yamada

CAST Jô Shishido, Chitose Kobayashi, Jerry Fujio, Shoki Fukae, Zenji Yamada, Hideaki Esumi, Jun Hongo, Akio Miyabe, Toyoko Takechi, Kôjirô Kusanagi, Ryotaro Sugi, Takamaru Sasaki, Asao Uchida

MUSIC Harumi Ibe

San Sebastián (Thematic retrospective. JAPANESE FILM NOIR), New York (Masterworks)

Synopsis

One of Japanese cinema’s supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura’s A Colt Is My Passport is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs. Featuring an incredible, spaghetti-western-style soundtrack and brimming with formal experimentation, this is Nikkatsu at its finest. —The Criterion Collection

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TFCHooligan69

19Mar13

A Nikkatsu classic best viewed in a theatre. Perhaps my appreciation for this film is reinforced by the score and the ending. One of my favourites from Criterion's Nikkatsu Eclipse set, though I may prefer Cruel Gun Story, if asked to choose just one.

Adam Slusar

3Jan13

An assured and stylish noir thriller with exceptional shootout finale.

StellaWasaDiver

16Dec12

I just KNEW this was going to be the still.

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Daniela

3May12

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FANTASIA Report: A COLT IS MY PASSPORT Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011

Retrospective screenings are always a dicey proposition for a film festival. With your audience always hungry for the latest and the greatest bringing in old titles can be a sure fire way to bleed money

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NIKKATSU NOIR: Takashi Nomura's A COLT IS MY PASSPORT

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011

Takashi Nomura’s 1967 film A Colt is My Passport is arguably the best known of the five films featured in the Nikkatsu Noir box set from Criterion sub-label Eclipse. For that reason, and the fact that

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FANTASIA Report: A COLT IS MY PASSPORT Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010

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NIKKATSU NOIR: Takashi Nomura's A COLT IS MY PASSPORT

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010

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By Chris Casey on July 18, 2009

Takashi Nomura’s A COLT IS MY PASSPORT is a bona fide hard-boiled classic! An excellent cast brings life to Yamada and Nagahara’s taut, economic script. Mine’s superb, noir-like cinematography is… read review

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