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Recklessly cool killer Goro (Tetsuya Watari from
Tokyo Drifter, a hotshot with a love of convertibles and pop music, murders a rival Tokyo mob boss he was only supposed to scare and is sent to Kobe to cool off. A year later he's made a cozy little home, looking out for a local madam and playing godfather to a gang of fawning disciples. He's still recklessly cool, whistling his own theme song while lounging under his Tyrolean hat like a Japanese Sinatra, picking fights in bars and frugging to groovy pop music. But suddenly he has a relentless cop and a ruthless assassin on his tail and a mystery woman in his life and the cool is overtaken by the reckless. There's a fun nostalgia to this offbeat gangster picture, which is full of funky 1960s fashions and attitudes. Compared to Seijun Suzuki's deliriously energetic gangster classics (
Youth of the Beast,
Branded to Kill), the wandering pace punctuated by explosions of violence seems almost sedate, but by any other standards it's an enjoyable genre tale with a compelling performance by the confident Watari.
--Sean Axmaker
Product Description
Popular Nikkatsu tough guy Tetsuya Watari, (
Tokyo Drifter)has one of his most colorful roles in this stylish thriller about a gangster on the run from the cops and his fellow
Yakuza. "Killer" Goro (Watari) lives up to his nickname by shooti
