Le Samouraï

• Movie

  Type

• 1967

  Year

• 1h 45m

  Runtime

• ★ 8.0

  Rating

• Crime / Drama / Thriller

  Genre

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.

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Cast

Alain Delon

Jef Costello

François Périer

Superintendant

Nathalie Delon

Jane Lagrange

Cathy Rosier

Valerie, die Pianistin

Catherine Jourdan

La jeune fille du vestiaire

Jacques Leroy

L'homme de la passerelle

Michel Boisrond

Wiener

Robert Favart

Le barman

Jean-Pierre Posier

Olivier Rey

Roger Fradet

1er inspecteur

Carlo Nell

2ème inspecteur

Robert Rondo

3ème inspecteur