"In Tokyo Drifter Suzuki pulls out all the stops. This highly stylized send-up of the yakuza genre, complete with garish colors, pulsating jazz score, Guys and Dolls sets, and a Western-style saloon brawl, is a delight to watch. 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 than saving her from lecherous yakuzas, he won't touch her. In a male-dominated world of treachery, losers, and drifters, a woman's presence becomes an anomaly. Better if she were a horse. In Tokyo Drifter, Suzuki, with his eccentric knack for the absurd, has created a true work of Pop Art." Luis H. Francia, Village Voice