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Released
1966 · FILM

Tokyo Drifter

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
83 min
Language
JA
ActionCrime
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his criminal empire, a rival kingpin named Otsuka offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu refuses, Otsuka turns to Tatsuzo "the Viper," a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper follows his target through the countryside, Phoenix Tetsu becomes increasingly worried that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Shin Ya InoueShot by Shigeyoshi MineScored by Hajime KaburagiDesigned by Takeo Kimura

Also known as

  • Abrechnung in Tokiode
  • Tokyo Drifterde
  • Tokyo Drifter – Der Mann aus Tokiode
  • The Man from Tokyoen
  • Tokyo Drifteren
  • Le vagabond de Tokyofr
  • Tokyo Drifterit

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