A Japanese gangster movie that unconventionally embraces a neo noir jazzy aesthetic, cinematography where hyper surreal color, choreographed action and unpredictable jump cuts edit converged. Tetsuya Watari plays the lead and performed the theme song, his baby-blue tuxedo and whistling the tune to kill another gangster couldn't be more iconic. Most strikingly, Tokyo Drifter slices through the genre into a chaotically excessive aesthetic of Japanese arthouse cinema, frenetic and colorfully violent.
A Japanese gangster movie that unconventionally embraces a neo noir jazzy aesthetic, cinematography where hyper surreal color, choreographed action and unpredictable jump cuts edit converged. Tetsuya Watari plays the lead and performed the theme song, his baby-blue tuxedo and whistling the tune to kill another gangster couldn't be more iconic. Most strikingly, Tokyo Drifter slices through the genre into a chaotically excessive aesthetic of Japanese arthouse cinema, frenetic and colorfully violent.