A Colt Is My Passport
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| - | '''Joe Shishido''' (December 6, 1933 – January 20, 2020) was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric [[yakuza film]] roles and his [[Cheek augmentation|artificially enlarged cheekbones]]. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the [[cult film]] ''[[Branded to Kill]]'' (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname '''Joe the Ace''' for his popular role in the [[Western (genre)|Western]] ''Fast-Draw Guy'' (1961). | ||
| - | ==Partial filmography== | + | '''''A Colt Is My Passport''''' is a [[1967 in film|1967]] [[Cinema of Japan|Japanese]] [[yakuza film]] directed by [[Takashi Nomura]] for the [[Nikkatsu|Nikkatsu Corporation]]. It is based on the novel ''[[Tobosha]]'' by Shinji Fujihara. |
| - | ===Films=== | + | |
| - | * 1955 ''[[Keisatsu Nikki]]'' - directed [[Seiji Hisamatsu]] | + | |
| - | * 1957 ''[[Shori-sha]]'' | + | |
| - | * 1958 ''[[Rusty Knife]]'' - d. by [[Toshio Masuda (director)|Toshio Masuda]] | + | |
| - | * 1958 ''[[Voice Without a Shadow]]'' (影なき声 ''Kagenaki koe'') - d. [[Seijun Suzuki]] | + | |
| - | * 1963 ''[[Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!]]'' (探偵事務所２３ 銭と女に弱い男 ''Tantei jimusho 23: Kutabare akutōdomo'') - d. by Seijun Suzuki | + | |
| - | * 1963 ''[[Youth of the Beast]]'' (野獣の青春 ''Yaju no seishun'') - d. Seijun Suzuki | + | |
| - | * 1964 ''[[Cruel Gun Story]]'' - d. Takumi Furukawa | + | |
| - | * 1964 ''[[Gate of Flesh]]'' (肉体の門 ''Nikutai no mon'') - d. Seijun Suzuki | + | |
| - | * 1967 ''[[A Colt Is My Passport]]'' (拳銃は俺のパスポート ''Koruto wa ore no pasupoto'') - d. [[Takashi Nomura]] | + | |
| - | * 1967 ''[[Massacre Gun]]'' (みな殺しの拳銃 ''Minagoroshi no kenjū'') - d. [[Yasuharu Hasebe]] | + | |
| - | * 1967 ''[[Branded to Kill]]'' (殺しの烙印 ''Koroshi no rakuin'') - d. Seijun Suzuki | + | |
| - | * 1968 ''[[Retaliation (film)|Retaliation]]'' (縄張はもらった ''Shima wa moratta'') - d. Yasuharu Hasebe | + | |
| - | * 1971 ''[[A Man′s World]]'' - d.Yasuharu Hasebe | + | |
| - | * 1974 ''[[Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode]]'' (仁義なき戦い 完結篇 ''Jingi naki tatakai: Chojo sakusen'') - d. [[Kinji Fukasaku]] | + | |
| - | * 1974 ''[[New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974 film)|New Battles Without Honor and Humanity]]'' (新 仁義なき戦い ''Shin Jingi naki tatakai) - d. Kinji Fukasaku | + | |
| - | * 1977 ''[[A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness]]'' (悲愁物語 ''Hishu monogatari'') - d. Seijun Suzuki | + | |
| - | * 1978 ''[[Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron]]'' (雲霧仁左衛門 ''Kumokiri nizaemon'') - d. [[Hideo Gosha]] | + | |
| - | * 1981 ''[[Edo Porn]]'' (北斎漫画 ''Hokusai manga'') - d. [[Kaneto Shindō]] | + | |
| - | * 1982 ''[[Tenkōsei]]'' | + | |
| - | * 1985 ''[[Caribe: Symphony of Love]]'' (カリブ・愛のシンフォニー ''Karibu: Ai no shinfoni'') - d. [[Norifumi Suzuki]] | + | |
| - | * 1986 ''[[The Samurai (1986 film)|The Samurai]]'' (ザ・サムライ ''Za samurai'' - d. Norifumi Suzuki | + | |
| - | * 1987 Fugitive Alien - d. Minoru Kanaya & Kiyosumi Kuzakawa | + | |
| - | * 1988 ''[[Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis]]'' - d. [[Akio Jissoji]] | + | |
| - | * 1994 ''[[The Most Terrible Time in My Life]]'' (我が人生最悪の時 ''Waga jinsei saiaku no toki'') - d. [[Kaizo Hayashi]] | + | |
| - | * 1995 ''[[The Stairway to the Distant Past]]'' (遥かな時代の階段を ''Harukana jidai no kaidan'') o - d. Kaizo Hayashi | + | |
| - | * 1996 ''[[The Trap (1996 film)|The Trap]]'' (罠 ''Wana'') - d. Kaizo Hayashi | + | |
| - | * 1997 ''[[To Love (film)|To Love]]'' (愛する ''Aisuru'') - d. [[Kei Kumai]] | + | |
| - | * 2001 ''[[Kisaragi (film)|KIsaragi]]'' | + | |
| - | ===Television=== | + | It stars [[Joe Shishido]] as a [[Contract killing|hitman]] and [[Jerry Fujio]] as his partner. The film was among Shishido's first starring roles, cementing him as a hardboiled action hero, and remains his personal favourite of the 170 films he made at Nikkatsu. |
| - | * 1973 ''[[Kunitori Monogatari]]'' – [[Shibata Katsuie]] | + | |
| - | * 1974 ''[[Katsu Kaishū (TV series)|Katsu Kaishū]]'' | + | Perhaps Nomura's best known film, it was influenced by [[French New Wave]] filmmakers such as [[Jean-Pierre Melville]], and by [[Sergio Leone]]-style [[Western (genre)|Westerns]]. Nomura's use of still shots in the opening sequence has been compared to manga art techniques. |
| - | * 1973 ''[[Shinsho Taikōki]]'' (1973), [[Nakagawa Kiyohide]] | + | |
| - | * 1976 ''[[Dai Tokai Series|Daitokai Tatakaino Hibi]]'' | + | This film was made available in North America when Janus Films released a special set of Nikkatsu Noir films as part of [[the Criterion Collection]], also including ''[[I Am Waiting (film)|I Am Waiting]]'', ''[[Rusty Knife]]'', ''[[Take Aim at the Police Van]]'', and ''[[Cruel Gun Story]]''. |
| - | * 1976 ''[[Kaze to Kumo to Niji to]]'' - | + | |
| - | * 1978 ''[[Star Wolf (TV series)|Star Wolf]]'' - Captain Joe | + | ==Plot== |
| - | * 1981 ''[[Pro Hunter]]'' - Yuzo Kikushima | + | [[Contract killer]] Shuji Kamimura ([[Joe Shishido]]) and his partner Shun Shiozaki ([[Jerry Fujio]]) are hired by yakuza boss Senzaki to eliminate a former partner, Boss Shimazu, who has embezzled from an international co-op between both men. Kamimura successfully assassinates Boss Shimazu at his home while meeting with Senzaki. Kamimura and Shun attempt to leave the country by plane, but are waylaid and kidnapped by Shimazu's men. The duo escapes by stopping their car with specially-designed second brake behind the driver's seat that Shun had installed earlier, which kills Shimazu's men. Senzaki's lieutenant Nozaki orders them to hide out at a truck stop, the Hotel Nagisakan, to wait for further instructions. Later that night, more gunmen under Shimazu's lieutenant, following information from fellow yakuza boss Tsugawa arrive to kill them, but do not find the duo as they have escaped by bribing one of the patrons to take them to another motel. |
| - | * 1988 ''[[Takeda Shingen (Taiga drama)|Takeda Shingen]]'' – [[Hara Toratane]] | + | |
| - | * 1996 ''[[Hideyoshi (Taiga drama)|Hideyoshi]]'' – [[Honda Masanobu]] | + | The next day, the chief of Shimazu's men attempts to kill the duo by intercepting them and ordering their ferry that was supposed to be their getaway vehicle to depart early; this fails when Kamimura and Shun show up in the truck they rode in from the previous night and run over the hitman, but the ferry has already left. Returning to the Nagisakan, Kamimura drugs Shun with a sleeping pill while Mina, the motel's waitress, directs him to a freighter captain willing to smuggle the three out of the country. However Tsugawa manages to broker a peace deal between Senzaki and Shimazu's son, who has succeeded his father as boss. The two settle their differences and decide to have Kamimura eliminated. Shun is later kidnapped at the Nagisakan, and when Mina arrives to pick him up and her belongings, is told by Senzaki by phone to have Kamimura meet with one of his henchmen. Later, Mina returns to Kamimura and tries to leave without Shun, but one of Senzaki's men arrives. Kamimura then negotiates to have Shun released in exchange for himself in three hours' time. |
| - | * 2000 ''[[Aoi Tokugawa Sandai]]'' – [[Honda Tadakatsu]] | + | |
| - | * 2001 ''[[The Kindaichi Case Files]]'' – Fujio Tashiro | + | The exchange goes as planned, and the ship leaves without Kamimura, who arranges to meet with Senzaki and Shimazu at a landfill the next morning for his execution. Kamimura then spends the rest of the day planning on how to fight off the gunmen, spying on them testing various weapons on a special car with bulletproof windows, which Senzaki, Shimazu, and Tsugawa plan to use to safely watch Kamimura's execution. Kamimura then builds a bomb from several dynamite sticks with stopwatch as a timer; he also digs a ditch in the landfill where he plans to hide it. Shortly after finishing the ditch, he is beset by hitmen and fends them off. The car carrying Senzaki, Shimazu, and Tsugawa then moves to run him over with a gunman in the front trying to shoot Kamimura. Kamimura is hit several times but when the car is almost upon him, he dives into the ditch and plants the bomb under the car, which explodes, killing all its occupants. An injured Kamimura then briefly surveys the carnage before limping away as the film ends. |
| - | * 2009 ''[[Tenchijin]]'' – [[Naoe Kagetsuna]] | + | |
| + | ==Cast== | ||
| + | * [[Joe Shishido]] as Shuji Kamimura | ||
| + | * Jerry Fujio as Shun Shiozaki | ||
| + | * Chitose Kobayashi as Mina | ||
| + | * Shoki Fukae as Funaki | ||
| + | * Hideaki Esumi as Senzaki | ||
| + | * Jun Hongo as Kaneko | ||
| + | * Akio Miyabe as Miyoshi | ||
| + | * Toyoko Takechi as Otatsu | ||
| + | * Zenji Yamada as barge captain | ||
| + | * [[Kanjuro Arashi]] as Shimazu | ||
| + | * [[Ryōtarō Sugi]] as Shimazu's successor | ||
| + | * [[Kojiro Kusanagi]] as hitman | ||
| + | * Takamaru Sasaki as Otawara | ||
| + | * Asao Uchida as Tsugawa | ||
| + | * Zeko Nakamura as apartment receptionist | ||
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A Colt Is My Passport is a 1967 Japanese yakuza film directed by Takashi Nomura for the Nikkatsu Corporation. It is based on the novel Tobosha by Shinji Fujihara.
It stars Joe Shishido as a hitman and Jerry Fujio as his partner. The film was among Shishido's first starring roles, cementing him as a hardboiled action hero, and remains his personal favourite of the 170 films he made at Nikkatsu.
Perhaps Nomura's best known film, it was influenced by French New Wave filmmakers such as Jean-Pierre Melville, and by Sergio Leone-style Westerns. Nomura's use of still shots in the opening sequence has been compared to manga art techniques.
This film was made available in North America when Janus Films released a special set of Nikkatsu Noir films as part of the Criterion Collection, also including I Am Waiting, Rusty Knife, Take Aim at the Police Van, and Cruel Gun Story.
Plot
Contract killer Shuji Kamimura (Joe Shishido) and his partner Shun Shiozaki (Jerry Fujio) are hired by yakuza boss Senzaki to eliminate a former partner, Boss Shimazu, who has embezzled from an international co-op between both men. Kamimura successfully assassinates Boss Shimazu at his home while meeting with Senzaki. Kamimura and Shun attempt to leave the country by plane, but are waylaid and kidnapped by Shimazu's men. The duo escapes by stopping their car with specially-designed second brake behind the driver's seat that Shun had installed earlier, which kills Shimazu's men. Senzaki's lieutenant Nozaki orders them to hide out at a truck stop, the Hotel Nagisakan, to wait for further instructions. Later that night, more gunmen under Shimazu's lieutenant, following information from fellow yakuza boss Tsugawa arrive to kill them, but do not find the duo as they have escaped by bribing one of the patrons to take them to another motel.
The next day, the chief of Shimazu's men attempts to kill the duo by intercepting them and ordering their ferry that was supposed to be their getaway vehicle to depart early; this fails when Kamimura and Shun show up in the truck they rode in from the previous night and run over the hitman, but the ferry has already left. Returning to the Nagisakan, Kamimura drugs Shun with a sleeping pill while Mina, the motel's waitress, directs him to a freighter captain willing to smuggle the three out of the country. However Tsugawa manages to broker a peace deal between Senzaki and Shimazu's son, who has succeeded his father as boss. The two settle their differences and decide to have Kamimura eliminated. Shun is later kidnapped at the Nagisakan, and when Mina arrives to pick him up and her belongings, is told by Senzaki by phone to have Kamimura meet with one of his henchmen. Later, Mina returns to Kamimura and tries to leave without Shun, but one of Senzaki's men arrives. Kamimura then negotiates to have Shun released in exchange for himself in three hours' time.
The exchange goes as planned, and the ship leaves without Kamimura, who arranges to meet with Senzaki and Shimazu at a landfill the next morning for his execution. Kamimura then spends the rest of the day planning on how to fight off the gunmen, spying on them testing various weapons on a special car with bulletproof windows, which Senzaki, Shimazu, and Tsugawa plan to use to safely watch Kamimura's execution. Kamimura then builds a bomb from several dynamite sticks with stopwatch as a timer; he also digs a ditch in the landfill where he plans to hide it. Shortly after finishing the ditch, he is beset by hitmen and fends them off. The car carrying Senzaki, Shimazu, and Tsugawa then moves to run him over with a gunman in the front trying to shoot Kamimura. Kamimura is hit several times but when the car is almost upon him, he dives into the ditch and plants the bomb under the car, which explodes, killing all its occupants. An injured Kamimura then briefly surveys the carnage before limping away as the film ends.
Cast
- Joe Shishido as Shuji Kamimura
- Jerry Fujio as Shun Shiozaki
- Chitose Kobayashi as Mina
- Shoki Fukae as Funaki
- Hideaki Esumi as Senzaki
- Jun Hongo as Kaneko
- Akio Miyabe as Miyoshi
- Toyoko Takechi as Otatsu
- Zenji Yamada as barge captain
- Kanjuro Arashi as Shimazu
- Ryōtarō Sugi as Shimazu's successor
- Kojiro Kusanagi as hitman
- Takamaru Sasaki as Otawara
- Asao Uchida as Tsugawa
- Zeko Nakamura as apartment receptionist
