Le Samouraï

Release date: 1967-10-25
Runtime: 105
Country: France, Italy

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.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Cast: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Michel Boisrond, Catherine Jourdan, Jean-Pierre Posier, Robert Favart, Jacques Leroy, Roger Fradet