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Dir: Seijun Suzuki, 1966, Japan, 83 mins, Japanese with English subtitles, Cert: 12Sun 19 January 2025 // 17:00
Tickets: £5
(We are a membership venue, please bring your card or join on the door for £1)
In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. Director Seijun Suzuki’s onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colors is equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima—an anything-goes, in-your-face rampage. Tokyo Drifter is a delirious highlight of the brilliantly excessive Japanese cinema of the sixties.
As part of our Japanuary season, and to celebrate the launch of a new publication dedicated to Seijun Suzuku, we're screening a double bill of films by this most delightfully unhinged of Japanese directors.
Come along to Fighting Elegy at 2pm, and pick up a copy of Bristol artist Andrew Wilson's riso-printed chapbook, featuring illustrations by seven artists responding to Suzuki's films.
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Dove Street South, BS2 8JD Bristol, United Kingdom, Bristol, United Kingdom
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