Review of Tokyo Drifter (1966) by Daniel K — 04 Jan 2012

3: It is quite original and striking, but I was hoping for something a bit different. I imagine if I'd seen this back in college when I was in my French nouvelle vague phase I would have enjoyed it much more.

The visuals are striking and almost completely divorced from reality; in other words it is very stylistic. I can certainly tell this was made in the same era as Pigs and Battleships as well, even if the anti-Americanism/colonialism isn't as apparent.

I just never really became invested in the story or dazzled enough by the stylistic flourishes to really get involved. There certainly isn't much of a difference between Yakuza and Samurai pictures though.