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Patton Oswalt’s Adventures in Moviegoing

A Colt Is My Passport

1h 24m

Directed by Takashi Nomura • 1967 • Japan
Starring Joe Shishido, Chitose Kobayashi

One of Japanese cinema’s supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura’s A COLT IS MY PASSPORT is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs. Featuring an incredible, spaghetti-western-style soundtrack and brimming with formal experimentation, this is Nikkatsu at its finest.

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