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Tokyo Drifter

Director: Seijun Suzuki | Japan 1966 | 83 min | 35mm | Original version with German subtitles | with Eimei Esumi, Tetsuya Watari, Ryuji Kita

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.

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