Suzuki, Seijun, (II), Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Kita, Ryuji, Matsubara, Chieko, Nitani, Hideaki, Watari, Tetsuya	...	(Director)
Kôhan Kawauchi	...	(Writer)
Tetsuya Watari	...	Tetsuya 'Phoenix Tetsu' Hondo
Chieko Matsubara	...	Chiharu
Hideaki Nitani	...	Kenji Aizawa
Ryûji Kita	...	Kurata
Tsuyoshi Yoshida	...	Keiichi
Eimei Esumi	...	Otsuka
Tamio Kawaji	...	Tatsuzo, The Viper
Eiji Gô	...	Tanaka
Tochiko Hamakawa	...	Mutsuko
Isao Tamagawa	...	Umetani
Michio Hino	...	Yoshii
Shuntaro Tamamura	...	Koyanagi
Hiroshi Midorigawa	...
Hiroshi Chô	...	Kumamoto
Kosuke Hisamatsu	...
Ryuji Kita	...	Kurata
Hideaki Esumi	...	Otsuka
Eiji Go	...	Tanaka

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Summary: In this free-jazz gangster film, reformed killer "Phoenix" Tetsu drifts around Japan, awaiting his own execution until he's called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. Seijun Suzuki's "barrage of aestheticised violence, visual gags, [and] mind-warping color effects" got him in more trouble with Nikkatsu studio heads, who had ordered him to "play it straight this time." Instead he gave them equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima. Criterion presents the DVD premiere of Tokyo Drifter in a lush color transfer from the original, glorious Nikkatsu-scope master.