Le samouraï = The samurai / Janus Films ; distribution, René Chateau ; Prodis ; [presented by] Raymond Borderie et Eugène Lépicier ; film de Jean-Pierre Melville.
Edition:
DVD special edition.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (25 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Jean-Pierre Posier, Michel Boisrond. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967. Special features: Interviews from 2005 with Jean-Pierre Melville historians Rui Nogueira and Ginette Vincendeau; collection of excerpts from archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, Cathy Rosier, Nathalie Delon and François Périer; "Melville-Delon: D'honneur et de nuit" short documentary about the friendship of the director and actor ; theatrical trailer ; booklet with essay by film scholar David Thomson, a tribute by filmmaker John Woo, and an excerpt from Rui Nogueira's book Melville on Melville.
Summary:
Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.
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