A Colt Is My Passport
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Music director Harumi Ibe Duration Language Japanese | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Action, Crime, Drama Screenplay NoB, Shuichi Nagahara Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date February 4, 1967 Writer Shinji Fujiwara (novel), Hideichi Nagahara (screenplay), Nobuo Yamada (screenplay) Cast Jô Shishido (Shuji Kamimura), Chitose Kobayashi (Mina), (Shun Shiozaki), Akiyoshi Fukae (Funaki (as Shoki Fukae)), Zenji Yamada (Barge captain), Eimei Esumi (Senzaki)Similar movies The Godfather , Everly , High and Low , Dragon Eyes , The Bad Sleep Well , Trial by Jury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cinema yakuza ep 2 a colt is my passport 1967
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss whos gotten greedy.
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A Colt Is My Passport (, Koruto wa Ore no Pasupoto) is a 1967 Japanese yakuza film directed by Takashi Nomura for the Nikkatsu Corporation.
This film was made available in North America when Janus Films released a special set of Nikkatsu Noir films as part of the Criterion Collection, also including I Am Waiting, Rusty Knife, Take Aim at the Police Van, and Cruel Gun Story.
The melancholy, homely Kamimura is a hit man who takes a job to kill a mob boss who's gotten greedy..
Synopsis
It stars Joe Shishido as a hitman who, along with his sidekick played by Jerry Fujio, is hired by the yakuza to eliminate a rival gangs boss. The two are captured after the job, escape and are waylaid once again resulting in a climatic battle. The film was among Shishidos first starring roles, cementing him as a hardboiled action hero, and remains a personal favourite of the 170 films he made at Nikkatsu.
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Joe Shishido appears in A Colt Is My Passport and Rusty Knife. Joe Shishido and Eimei Esumi appear in A Colt Is My Passport and Youth of the Beast. Joe Shishido appears in A Colt Is My Passport and Branded to Kill. Take Aim at the Police Van (1960). Joe Shishido appears in A Colt Is My Passport and Cruel Gun Story.
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