Le Samouraï [1967 film]
by Jean-Pierre Melville (Director), Georges Pellegrin (Screenwriter)
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Jef Costello is a fedora and trench-coat wearing contract killer with samurai instincts. When Jef assassinates a nightclub owner, he finds himself confronted by a series of witnesses, who drop his perfect world into the hands of a persistent police investigator and Jef's shadowy employer, both of whom are determined to put an end to the career criminal.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Le Samouraï [1967 film]
- Original title
- Le samouraï
- Alternate titles
- The Samurai; The Godson
- Original publication date
- 1967-10-25
- People/Characters
- Jef Costello (Alain Delon)
- Important places
- Paris, France; France
- Related movies
- Le Samouraï (1967 | IMDb)
- Epigraph
- There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...
— Bushido (Book of the Samurai) - Original language
- French
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- 113
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- (4.25)
- Languages
- English, French, Multiple languages
- ISBNs
- 7
- UPCs
- 3
- ASINs
- 16
