Le samouraï

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.
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Interviews from 2005 with Rui Nogueira, editor of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris
- Archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
- Melville-Delon: D’honneur et de nuit (2011), a short documentary exploring the friendship between the director and the actor and their iconic collaboration on this film
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Thomson, an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo, and excerpts from Melville on Melville
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Interviews from 2005 with Rui Nogueira, editor of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris
- Archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
- Melville-Delon: D’honneur et de nuit (2011), a short documentary exploring the friendship between the director and the actor and their iconic collaboration on this film
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Thomson, an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo, and excerpts from Melville on Melville

Cast
- Alain Delon
- Jef Costello
- François Périer
- Superintendent
- Nathalie Delon
- Jane Lagrange
- Cathy Rosier
- Valérie, the pianist
- Jacques Leroy
- Man in the passageway
- Michel Boisrond
- Wiener
- Robert Favart
- Bartender
- Jean-Pierre Posier
- Olivier Rey
- Catherine Jourdan
- Hatcheck girl
- Roger Fradet
- First inspector
- Carlo Nell
- Second inspector
- Robert Rondo
- Third inspector
- André Salgues
- Mechanic
- Georges Casati
- Damolini
- Jean Gold
- First nightclub client
- Georges Billy
- Second nightclub client
Credits
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Producers
- Raymond Borderie
- Producers
- Eugène Lépicier
- Screenplay
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Director of photography
- Henri Decaë
- Camera operators
- Jean Charvein
- Camera operators
- Henri Decaë
- Music
- François de Roubaix
- Production design
- François de Lamothe
- Production supervisor
- Georges Casati
- Assistant director
- Georges Pellegrin
- Editors
- Monique Bonnot
- Editors
- Yo Maurette
- Assistant editors
- Geneviève Adam
- Assistant editors
- Madeleine Bagiau
- Assistant editors
- Madeleine Guérin
- Assistant editors
- Geneviève Letellier
- Sound supervisor
- Alex Pront
- Sound editor
- Robert Pouret
- Sound engineer
- René Longuet
- Furniture and accessories
- Robert Christides
A scene from Le Samouraï


