Movie
Tokyo Drifter
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1966-04-10
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Genres
- Thriller, Crime, Action
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Nikkatsu Corporation
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
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
- Ryuji Kita as Kurata
- Yuzo Kiura as Fujimura
- Hiroshi Chō as Kumamoto
Crew
- Seijun Suzuki - Director
- Kōhan Kawauchi - Screenplay
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