Japan
1967
84 minutes
Black and White
2.35:1
Japanese
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.
| Shuji Kamimura | Jo Shishido |
| Mina | Chitose Kobayashi |
| Shun Shiozaki | Jerry Fujio |
| Funaki | Shoki Fukae |
| Barge captain | Zenji Yamada |
| Senzaki | Hideaki Esumi |
| Kaneko | Jun Hongo |
| Miyoshi | Akio Miyabe |
| Otatsu | Toyoko Takechi |
| Hitman | Kojiro Kusanagi |
| Successor of Shimazu | Ryotaro Sugi |
| Otawara | Takamaru Sasaki |
| Tsugawa | Asao Uchida |
| Director | Takashi Nomura |
| Producer | Takeo Yanagawa |
| Custom... | Shinji Fujiwara |
| Screenplay | Nubuo Yamada, Shuichi Nagahara and Nobuo Yamada |
| Cinematography | Shigeyoshi Mine |
| Production Design | Toshiyuki Matsui |
| Editing | Akira Suzuki |
| Music | Harumi Ibe |
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