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.
Released: 1967
Casts:
Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Catherine Jourdan, Jacques Leroy, Michel Boisrond, Robert Favart, Jean-Pierre Posier, Roger Fradet, Carlo Nell, Robert Rondo, André Salgues, André Thorent, Jacques Deschamps, Georges Casati, Jacques Léonard, Pierre Vaudier, Maurice Magalon, Gaston Meunier, Jean Gold, Georges Billy, Ari Aricardi, Guy Bonnafoux, Humberto Catalano, Carl Lechner, Maria Maneva