A Colt Is My Passport (1967)

Recommended

Japan

Feature Film

Original Title: 拳銃は俺のパスポート

Director: Nomura Takashi

Writers: Nagahara Shuichi, Yamada Nobuo, Fujiwara Shinji

Cinematographer: Mine Shigeyoshi

Composer: Ibe Harumi

Cast: Shishido Jō, Kobayashi Chitose, Fujio Jerry, Fukae Shoki, Yamada Zenji, Esumi Eimei, Hongō Jun

After killing a gang boss at the behest of a rival, Shuji, an expert hitman, and Shun, his more naïve accomplice, find the act of leaving the country particularly difficult, a task made even more so when the two gangs join forces, leaving them (but for a kind maid) all on their own, in Nomura’s stylish and suspenseful gangster film-cum-pseudo western. Iain.Stott