A Colt Is My Passport
– One of Japanese cinema’s supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura’s A Colt Is My Pass..
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.
04 Feb 1967
Japanese
Takashi Nomura
Shinji Fujiwara (novel), Hideichi Nagahara (screenplay), Nobuo Yamada (screenplay)
Jô Shishido, Jerry Fujio, Chitose Kobayashi, Ryôtarô Sugi
The melancholy, homely Kamimura is a hit man who takes a job to kill a mob boss who's gotten greedy. The rival gang lord who hires Kamimura and his driver Shun pays them and sets them up in a hotel for a night while arranging safe passage on a ship. The son of the dead man comes to his rival and offers a partnership and cash in exchange for Kamimura's death. The boss considers his choice: morals or money? A maid at the hotel tries to aid the escape of Kamimura and Shun. As the two gangs close in, Kamimura chooses honor. Will his stoicism be his shroud?
Nikkatsu