I liked it. It's got a unique and eclectic style with a new wave feel and it's a pretty fun.

Does it make a lick of sense? Nope. Did it stop me from enjoying it a helluva lot? Nope. Not nearly as great as Branded to Kill though.

Yet another Seijun Suzuki flick that creaks and groans until its visually dazzling conclusion, this time an amazing set piece. Again, if you have the patience, the climax alone is well worth the price of admission. Still looking forward to Branded to Kill, as it seems to be the favorite around here.

L'intrigue est confuse et semble relativement peu intéressante, mais elle est un excellent prétexte à des scènes toujours porté par la recherche du "cool", et, ici, l'esthétique de Suziki est peut-être ici à son apogée.

I really liked the photography. The beginning and ending scenes were especially beautiful.

Sweet art direction.

stylish comic book setpiece after stylish comic book setpiece. i'm not sure i followed the plot, but i'm also not sure it's really a 'plot' kinda movie.

Tokyo Drifter's balls-to-the-wall attitude more than make up for its choppy editing and gimmicky cinematography. The bloody climactic battle had me laughing with glee.

I thought of Tarantino while watching this (especially the more B-movie expressions+creative filmmaking aspects of the film). My guess is you have to like filmmaking to get into this, so fans of more mainstream crime/action films should probably avoid this.

Suzuki's style is awesome; it has the perfect new wave feel to it.

Stunning finale. If only it had that energy the whole way through.

Classic 60's yakuza flick about Tetsu, a former gangster who gets drawn back into the criminal life when a rival gang tries to swindle his ex-boss. He spends most of his time brooding or brawling, or hanging out at the club with his lounge singer girlfriend. It's a pretty standard tale of tough guys, double crosses and revenge but it's visually inspired. Suzuki makes use of spare sets with bright colors and creative lighting to give it a unique look, and the theme music is excellent.

bizarre pop-art-yakuza-movie-musical. love it!

One of the best kitsch experiences I've ever had!

This movie is fun. But dumb. But fun. But really dumb. The plot is pretty much incomprehensible and at times it just feels silly, not cool. It's entertaining, but not much else.

The direction and photography are bizarre, but so bold that you can't help but have a lot of fun. There are times when it seems like a bit too much for its own good, and sometimes I laughed when I don't think I was supposed to, but mostly it's just really cool.

In the waning days of Japan's studio system, Suzuki, who never turned down a script, got this little piece of generic B-movie yakuza junk. But instead of making a generic film, he took everything out of the script that didn't make for a cool scene in his head and just left in the bits that had visual potential. Then he just let his art department go crazy, giving the sets bizarre impressionistic colours and layouts and lit them just as strangely, just going for flat-out style. It works.

I might have liked it better if I could make any sense of it.

This film started well and was going fine until the bar fight seen where it all went a bit silly.All in all it wasnt a bad film with some great sets and use of colours providing some good visuals.

Maybe the best bar brawl on film.

The beginning is far out but the plot is not as crazy as many have made it out to be. It actually makes quite a bit of sense, but perhaps you've had to of seen a lot of Japanese gangster flix to really understand it. The only real problems this film has is its lack of budget and production time.

Not as zany and surreal as Branded to Kill, but still pretty good.

I found it almost impossible to follow the plot in the first half hour or so. The story got a bit more comprehensible after that, but even at the end I wasn't sure who was dead or alive and who betrayed who. None of it matters much anyway, 'cause Suzuki is all about the style. Once again the very end is the best part of the film.

The plot IS impossible to follow. The style does make up for a bit of it, but I need a lot more character development than this gave me. I just didn't care about anybody very much.

I'll have to watch it again to catch the details of the plot, but this one sure was a lot of fun.

This really grew on me. I love a stylish exaggeration on genre conventions.

Great final sequence.

The plot is all over the place and although there are some nice, stylized scenes, this didn't do it for me. Nice bar fight though.

Best theme song ever written.