Cinema Yakuza Ep. 2 – A Colt Is My Passport (1967) HD

Does ‘A Colt Is My Passport’ live up to its badass name? Find out in Episode #2 of Cinema Yakuza. East meets West in Takashi Nomura’s ultra-cool 1967 action film, A Colt Is My Passport, which drew inspiration from the films of Hollywood and the French New Wave to create a style that is truly ‘borderless.’ Patreon: http://patreon.com/cinematyler Twitter: http://twitter.com/cinematyler Facebook: http://facebook.com/cinematyler Tumblr: http://cinematyler.tumblr.com This video essay was written, edited, and narrated by Tyler Knudsen. Sources: No Borders No Limits by Mark Schilling A COLT IS MY PASSPORT: THIS GUN FOR HIRE by Chuck Stephens Clips: A Colt Is My Passport (1967 dir. Takashi Nomura) Branded to Kill (1967 dir. Seijun Suzuki) Dirty Work (1961 dir. Takeichi Saitô) Massacre Gun (1967 dir. Yasuharu Hasebe) The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978 dir. John Berry) Suicide Club (2001 dir. Sion Sono) Youth of the Beast (1963 dir. Seijun Suzuki) A Fistful of Dollars (1964 dir. Sergio Leone) Akira (1988 dir. Katsuhiro Otomo) Le Samouraï (1967 dir. Jean-Pierre Melville) The Big Sleep (1946 dir. Howard Hawks) Plains Wanderer (1960 dir. Buichi Saito) Breathless (1960 dir. Jean-luc Godard) Blue Hawaii (1961 dir. Norman Taurog) The Punisher (2004 dir. Jonathan Hensleigh) Yojimbo (1961 dir. Akira Kurosawa) Horse Feathers (1932 dir. Norman Z. McLeod) Reservoir Dogs (1992 dir. Quentin Tarantino) Dog Day Afternoon (1975 dir. Sidney Lumet) Bonnie and Clyde (1967 dir. Arthur Penn) Music: “A Colt Is My Passport Theme” “Faster Does It” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “A Difficult Subject” by The Insider (cheshiremusic.net) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ “In Time” by Mark Collie