#Chieko Matsubara

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Chieko Matsubara (松原智恵子), Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子),Yoko Yamamoto (山本陽子) and Hideaki Nitani (二谷英明) in Night Butterflies (三人の女 夜の蝶), 1971, directed by Saito Mitsumasa (斎藤光正).

#Meiko Kaji #梶芽衣子 #Night Butterflies #三人の女 夜の蝶 #Chieko Matsubara #松原智恵子 #Saito Mitsumasa #斎藤光正 #Yoko Yamamoto #山本陽子 #Hideaki Nitani #二谷英明 #press photo

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Tôkyô nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter, 1966)

"Otsuka! You call yourself a yakuza?"

"Money and power rule now. Honour means nothing!"

#Tôkyô nagaremono #tokyo drifter #seijun suzuki #japanese cinema #yakuza film #1966 #Yasunori Kawauchi #tetsuya watari #chieko matsubara #hideaki nitani #tamio kawaji #ryûji kita #eiji gô #isao tamagawa #eimei esumi #tomoko hamakawa #takeshi yoshida #michio hino #shuntarô tamamura #shinzô shibata #yûzô kiura #hiroshi chô #an absolutely beautiful film; a visual masterpiece and a calculated fuck you from Suzuki. Nikkatsu‚ frustrated by the director's attempts #to inject avant garde visuals into their straight genre pieces‚ slashed his budget and his schedule and basically said make a yakuza film #and don't get weird. in response he delivered his most visually experimental piece to date‚ a pop art kaleidoscope take on the gangster #ballad which also critiques the lack of reward that comes from loyalty to a corporate system (i wonder what that could be about Seijun..) #and also manages to parody american western cinema and the burgeoning spy film boom. it isn't quite perfect (i get what the bar room brawl #scene is doing as pastiche‚ but it's still too long and too messy) but as a paring down of the themes of yakuza cinema (and then inverting #those themes‚ so that loyalty and honour become a weakness) mixed with the sheer joyful spectacle of the film is nothing short of joy #Watari and Matsubara would be reunited for the (excellent) Outlaw Gangster series‚ which plays these same tropes deadly straight

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Black Tight Killers

俺にさわると危ないぜ (1966)

#Black Tight Killers #俺にさわると危ないぜ #Akira Kobayashi #Chieko Matsubara #小林旭 #松原智恵子 #Yasuharu Hasebe #Michio Tsuzuki #長谷部安春 #都筑道夫 #Japan #movie #gif #1966

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TOKYO DRIFTER:

Hit man leaves the job

Has to fend off his mob boss

Colourful crime flick

#Tokyo drifter #random richards #poem #haiku #poetry #haiku poem #poets on tumblr #haiku poetry #haiku form #poetic #criterion collection #criterion channel #tetsuya watari #chieko matsubara #seijun suzuki #tamio kawaji #Yasunori Kawauchi #crime drama #Youtube

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Joe Shishido and Yuji Kodaka in Cruel Gun Story (Takumi Furukawa, 1964) Cast: Joe Shishido, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawaji, Yuji Kodaka, Minako Katsuki, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi, Hiroshi Kondo, Shobun Inoue, Saburo Hiromatsu, Junichi Yamanobe. Screenplay: Hisatoshi Kai, Haruhiko Oyabu. Cinematography: Saburo Isayama. Art direction: Toshiyuki Matsui. Film editing: Masanori Tsujii. Music: Masayoshi Ikeda. My first impulse on watching Takumi Furukawa's Cruel Gun Story, with its whiplash double-crossings and piled-on violent deaths that reminded me of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction (1994), was to call it "Tarantino-esque." But that's getting it backward. Tarantino has said that he's "enamored with" the films of Nikkatsu, the studio that made Cruel Gun Story a good 30 years before Pulp Fiction, so by rights we should be calling his films "Nikkatsu-esque." Furukawa's film stars Joe Shishido, who was as essential to Japanese gangster films as James Cagney or Edward G. Robinson were to Warner Bros. gangster films of the 1930s. His glowering, jowly mug, usually with a cigarette plugged in its middle, is the essence of the tough guy. And like most tough guys, Shishido's Togawa has a heart of gold, devoted to his sister, crippled when she was struck by a car. She's the reason why, fresh out of prison, he signs on to a caper that involves the heist of an armored car. It's so elaborate a scheme, involving road detours and sabotaging the police radio and using a winch to pull the car onto a larger truck, that anyone who has ever seen a movie knows that it's going to go wrong. But even when it does, Togawa is able to come up with a Plan B, and then a Plan C, and so on, as double-crossers emerge from all corners. There's a sultry femme named Keiko (inako Katsuki) to add a little sex to the plot, but not enough to deter Togawa from getting revenge on the big boss who got him into this mess. The whole thing ends with more corpses than the last act of Hamlet, but it's done with such stylish efficiency that if feels like a better film than it probably really is. Which, come to think of it, is also Tarantino-esque.

#Cruel Gun Story #Takumi Furukawa #Joe Shishido #Yuji Kodaka

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Tokyo Drifter (1966)

東京流れ者 Tokyo Drifter (1966)  directed by Seijun Suzuki cinematography by Shigeyoshi Mine

#東京流れ者 #tokyo drifter #seijun suzuki #japanese cinema #japanese film #asian movie #1960s #neon noir #stills #tetsuya watari #chieko matsubara #asian cinema

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966)

#Tokyo Drifter #Seijun Suzuki #Suzuki #colour #white #long shot #yakuza #interiors #1966 #tokyo nagaremono #Tôkyô nagaremono #The Man from Tokyo #Tetsuya Watari #Chieko Matsubara #guns

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Chieko Matsubara and Meiko Kaji

#Chieko Matsubara #Meiko Kaji #Nikkatsu

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Tokyo Drifter (1966)

Director - Seijun Suzuki, Cinematography - Shigeyoshi Mine

"A drifter needs no woman."

#scenesandscreens #Tsuyoshi Yoshida #Ryūji Kita #Hideaki Esumi #Eiji Go #tokyo drifter #seijun suzuki #Shigeyoshi Mine #tetsuya watari #chieko matsubara #hideaki nitani #Tamio Kawaji

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Tokyo Drifter [1966]

Filmmaker : Seijun Suzuki

Produced by Tetsuro Nakagawa Written by Yasunori Kawauchi

Starring: Tetsuya Watari Chieko Matsubara Hideaki Nitani

#Tokyo Drifter #1966 #Seijun Suzuki #Yasunori Kawauchi #Tetsuya Watari #Chieko Matsubara #Hideaki Nitani #Tetsuro Nakagawa #cine

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Gangster VIP (1968)

#gangster vip #tetsuya watari #chieko matsubara #mitsuo hamada #tatsuya fuji #toshio masuda #burai yori daikanbu #yakuza #japanese cinema #filmedit

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Chieko Matsubara (松原智恵子), Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子), Takahiro Tamura (田村高廣), Ryohei Uchida (内田良平) and Toyozo Yamamoto (山本豊三) on the poster for Gambling Den Desire (鉄火場慕情), 1970, directed by Keiichi Ozawa (小沢啓一).

#Meiko Kaji #梶芽衣子 #Chieko Matsubara #Keiichi Ozawa #Takahiro Tamura #Ryohei Uchida #Toyozo Yamamoto #Gambling Den Desire #松原智恵子 #小沢啓一 #田村高廣 #内田良平 #山本豊三 #鉄火場慕情 #poster

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Poster for Our Blood Will Not Forgive (Oretachi No Chi Ga Yurusanai, 俺たちの血が許さない) also known as The Call Of Blood, 1964, directed by Seijun Suzuki (鈴木 清順) and starring Akira Kobayashi (小林旭), Hideki Takahashi (高橋英樹) and Chieko Matsubara (松原智恵子). 

#Seijun Suzuki #Akira Kobayashi #Hideki Takahashi #Chieko Matsubara #Nikkatsu #Our Blood Will Not Forgive #Oretachi No Chi Ga Yurusanai #俺たちの血が許さない #鈴木 清順 #The Call Of Blood #小林旭 #高橋英樹 #松原智恵子 #poster

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Bad movie I have Tokyo Drifter 1966 aka Tôkyô nagaremono

#Tokyo Drifter #Nikkatsu #Tetsuya Watari #Chieko Matsubara #Hideaki Nitani #Tamio Kawaji #Ryûji Kita #Eiji Gô #Isao Tamagawa #Eimei Esumi #Tomoko Hamakawa #Tsuyoshi Yoshida #Michio Hino #Shuntarô Tamamura #Hiroshi Midorikawa #Hiroshi Chô #Akira Hisamatsu #Shinzô Shibata #Yûzô Kiura #Yû Izumi #Ikuo Nikaidô #Masaaki Honme #Shirô Tonami #Wataru Kobayashi #Mitsuru Sawa #Iwae Arai #Yôko Yokota #Hiroshi Takao #Kiyoshi Ôba #Tessen Nakahira

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'Tokyo Drifter' – A lonely hitman on a wild odyssey on Criterion Channel

‘Tokyo Drifter’ – A lonely hitman on a wild odyssey on Criterion Channel

Weird, wild, and nearly incomprehensible, Seijun Suzuki’s gangster movie masterpiece Tokyo Drifter (Japan, 1967) recreates the Yakuza genre as a pop-art James Bond cartoon as directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It opens on a gangland beating on the docks of the grimy waterfront, a dynamic widescreen image in stark, overexposed black and white. As a trumpet brays a tune that sounds like a nightclub…

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#1967 #Blu-ray #Chieko Matsubara #Criterion Channel #Criterion Collection #DVD #Hideaki Nitani #Japan #Nikkatsu #Seijun Suzuki #Tamio Kawaji #Tetsuya Watari #Tokyo Drifter #VOD

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Tomoko Hamakawa and Tamio Kawaji in Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966) Cast: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawaji, Ryuji Kita, Hideaki Nitani, Eiji Go, Tomoko Hamakawa, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Isao Tamagawa, Eimei Esumi. Screenplay: Yasunori Kawauchi. Cinematography: Shigeyoshi Mine. Production design: Takeo Kimura. Film editing: Shinya Inoue. Music: Hajime Kaburagi. Imagine if The Godfather had been made in the mid-1960s with someone like Frankie Avalon as Michael Corleone, interpolated pop songs ("An Offer He Can't Refuse," perhaps?), and sets in comic book colors that look like they were designed for a Freed Unit musical at MGM in the 1950s. Then you have something like Tokyo Drifter, a jaw-dropping Japanese gangster movie directed by the irrepressible Seijun Suzuki. There's no summarizing a plot that has so many wild excursions, but it basically follows the attempts of a young hitman who has his yakuza boss's approval to go straight -- or so he thinks, until the boss changes his mind. None of this suggests where the movie's going to go, including the shootout between Tetsuya (Tetsuya Watari) and his almost Doppelgänger nemesis Tatsuzo (Tamio Kawaji) on the railroad tracks with an approaching train in a snowstorm. Or the free-for-all fistfight in a bar designed to look like a saloon set for an American Western, during which the bar is almost completely demolished. For most of the film, including the train track shootout, Tetsuya wears a robin's egg blue suit with white shoes, though he later changes into other pastels. Those who find Tokyo Drifter a bit much (as the studio that employed Suzuki did) dismiss it as style over substance, but it's undeniably fascinating.

#Tokyo Drifter #Seijun Suzuki