A twisted Japanese noir with one of the greatest femme fatales committed to celluloid.
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Tokyo Drifter (1966)
The visuals are astonishing (especially the colors! holy crap!), and the story doesn’t lack for scope or invention or polish. But a polished turd is still a turd, and this script is pretty rough.
If you love movies and escapism and romance, go watch this film. Hugely entertaining and also smart as hell, brilliantly made, and delightfully acted.
A movie character hops out of the screen and falls for a film-obsessed local girl, and the line between reality and cinema blur. Daniels and Farrow are great.
Kind of like Enchanted but for classic Hollywood instead of golden age Disney.
An impressionist masterpiece of composition, editing, and poetic suggestion.