Velvet Hustler
Jul 27 - Jul 28, 2008
Toshio Masuda, Japan, 1967, 35mm, 97 min
NO BORDERS, NO LIMITS: 1960s NIKKATSU ACTION CINEMA
VELVET HUSTLER stars Tetsuya Watari as Goro, a Tokyo hitman who likes his women like he likes his cars: fast and dangerous. After rubbing out a rival gang boss, he leaps into a conveniently parked red convertible and hotfoots it to the other side of Japan. After a year of lying low, he has wound up the kingpin of the Kobe underground, hanging out in smoky lounge bars, while avoiding both a suspicious police detective and the mysterious hitman sent to kill him. But Goro pines to leave vulgar Kobe to return to the sophisticated big city, perhaps with the striking Keiko (Ruriko Asaoka) by his side.