The epitome ofSuzuki's collaboration with art director Takeo Kimura, "in TokyoDrifter Suzuki pulls out all the stops. This highly stylized send-up ofthe yakuza genre, complete with garish colors, pulsating jazz score,Guys and Dolls sets, and a Western-style saloon brawl, is a delight towatch. A gangster with a tough-as-nails reputation tries to go straight,but neither circumstances nor his enemies allow him to. His girlfriend,a nightclub singer (natch), keeps trying to ensnare him, but other thansaving her from lecherous yakuzas, he won't touch her. In amale-dominated world of treachery, losers, and drifters, a woman'spresence becomes an anomaly. Better if she were a horse. In TokyoDrifter, Suzuki, with his eccentric knack for the absurd, has created atrue work of Pop Art." (Luis H. Francia, Village Voice) "Thisis a reckless reduction of the yakuza genre to its most fundamentalelements, strung together with only the most minimal regard for logic oreven narrative coherence....Is it necessary to add that the result isone of the most brilliant genre movies ever made?" (Tony Rayns)