Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki, 1966): Nickel Cinema, 6.30pm
Time Out review:
Deliriously playful yakuza pic, in which Seijun Suzuki lets logic hang.
Basically just another tale of gang warfare, it's kitted out with plot
ellipses, bizarre sets and colour effects, inappropriate songs, absurd
irrelevancies (nice hair-drier gags!), action scenes that verge on the
abstract, and some visual jokes tottering precariously between slapstick
and surrealism. Somehow, it still just about works as a thriller, with
(very, very faint) echoes of Jean-Pierre Melville and Sergio Leone. Inspired lunacy.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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