🎬 Tokyo Drifter (1966)

渡哲也 (Watari Tetsuya) was a Japanese actor who rose to fame through yakuza and action films at Nikkatsu studio in the 1960s and 70s. He became one of the studio's defining stars. "Tokyo Drifter" (Tokyo nagaremono, 1966), directed by Seijun Suzuki, is among his best-known works.

Chieko Matsubara (松原智恵子) is a Japanese actress who rose to prominence in 1960s film and television. She appeared in several of Seijun Suzuki's films, including Tokyo Drifter (1966), and became one of the most recognizable faces of that era in Japanese popular culture.

Tamio Kawachi was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 120 feature films. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Koreyoshi Kurahara and Seijun Suzuki, starring in Kurahara's The Warped Ones (1960) and Black Sun (1964), and having a prominent role in Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter (1966).

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Seijun Suzuki was a Japanese film director known for his visually flamboyant, often surrealist take on yakuza cinema. Films like Tokyo Drifter (1966) and Branded to Kill (1967) pushed so far against Nikkatsu studio norms that he was fired. He was later rehabilitated and kept directing well into the 2000s.