In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean‑Pierre Melville, Le samouraï is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.

Product details

Director	Jean-Pierre Melville
Actor	Alain Delon, François Perier, Natalie Delon
Label	CRITERION

Genre	Drama Crime
Content	Blu-ray
FSK / age rating	from age 12
Publication date	14.11.2017
Edition	Criterion Collection, Special Edition
Audio	French (Dolby Digital)
Subtitles	English
Length	105 Minutes
Screen	16/9
Year of production	1967
Original title	Le samouraï (French)
Version	US Version
Region code	A

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Drama
Crime

Customer reviews

Melville/Jarmusch

Written on 30. June 2003 by Clare Quilty.
This customer review refers to a alternative version.

Melville ist ein Meister seines Fachs. Delon arrogant aber einzigartig. Schaut Euch mal Ghost Dog von Jim Jarmusch an. Gutes Remake.