Tokyo Drifter
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Year Released: 1966
Rating: 0.5
Interminable dreck from maverick Suzuki, who took bland yakuza screenplays and transformed them into incoherent exercises in cinematic aestheticism (such actions eventually got him fired, which added to his cult status). Here, a drifter gets hired to take out some new gang in town - I think - and along the way you get lots of pretty colors and jump cuts. Set design a plus, everything else plays out like an inside joke. Not interesting in the slightest - go get Criterion's release of Branded to Kill instead.
