TOKYO KNIGHTS

“Stands the test of time and sheds light on Japanese society at the time while providing pure entertainment.” -- Eastern Kicks

Now available for the first time ever outside Japan, TOKYO KNIGHTS is a high point in the first five years of director Seijun Suzuki’s career within Nikkatsu’s “Borderless Action” series. Drawing inspiration from Hollywood and the French New Wave, Suzuki’s works for Nikkatsu blended East and West, movie-fuelled fantasies and gritty realities of life in postwar Japan. Here, we follow a college student who takes over the family business in the field of organized crime.