Tokyo Drifter

Ratings & Reviews

Alex Lewis

the images are remarkable (and god bless FilmStruck for the offering <3)

lesminho

7/10

Arsenii

Fun and entertaining. The main theme is very cool.

grotesc

3,5

Bonnet Michel

2018 YOUT

Ghostman

Tokyo Drifter is one of the coolest films ever made.Directed by Seijiun Suzuki, the film is lovingly made and is filled with outrageous and eccentric touches as Suzuki attempts to make Tokyo Drifter into every movie and not just another Yakuza movie. It's crazy and certifiable and I can see filmmakers like Jarmusch and Carax loving it and being influenced by it. if you can't vibe with it, then watch it again.

Jdsarmientoburgos

A Noirish crime-drama part of the experimental Japanese New Wave craze, lush with style, colors and random singing and whistling. Almost too slick for its own good.

Ma-rewind

Comme parfois avec Suzuki, bon, l'histoire... Mais les couleurs! La musique! Les cadrages! Le rythme! Le côté pop 60's! Et ça, ça vaut tout l'or du monde.

ejonline

My responses to Suzuki's movies really depend upon which order I saw them in. Tokyo Drifter is the first of his movies that I came across. I found it a bit intoxicating in the way that it threw typical cinematic grammar to the wind and soaked in the bold color schemes and seemingly Brechtian acting style that he was going for. In subsequent viewings of his other movies he seems simply incoherent and thus, less fun.

sabrina

10/10 for mise en scene

Nicholas Gregory

Uninviting in its talky and dull gangster politics that connect the action scenes, while its characters and story never deeply arouse the emotions-- even despite its garish, eye-candy colors and jazzy-pop score-- more than for a surface-level connection. It's cool in its look and feel often, but while style can sometimes fill in for substance, it too has to elicit deeply felt emotions. It doesn't here.

Ruiz Buñuel

Candy is bad for you.

Denis Zordan

3,5

Fabio Osvaldo Carta

8/10

cineholic

5/10. Though the production design is lovely and many of the colors pop, TOKYO DRIFTER is style without much substance: what exists of a story is nigh incomprehensible.

Latias

Short as it is the film is still too long for its story (slow pace). Bold colors to show personalities of characters (innovative for the time) and render various atmospheres. Like comic strip thus surprised to hear that Sutsuki never used storyboards! The discussion among 3 people near the end is really Kubric.

Dr. Q

This is a great movie, the sound, the imagery, the colors, the dialoge, sure, some would say its a bit soppy, but that's an element of style here

Lex Lucas

Pure fun in this yakuza ballad with total freedom in colors

OLIVER-J

rewatched this one a couple weeks back. RIP to a true trailblazer.

Balthaz21

3,5

FISCHER

Peu importe l'intrigue, la trame policière étant transgressée par une mise en scène fascinante, déconcertante de trouvailles visuelles et stylistiques. Une oeuvre essentielle en avance sur son temps... www.cinefiches.com

Amadeus Magnus

Great song.

Aaron Dillenbeck

The colors... oh god the colors!! Great cinematic eye. Trades substance for style and it totally works.

Chris

super stylish and occasionally cool, but the great moments are too few and far in between, 7/10