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Le Samouraï 4K UHD (UK Import)
Criterion

Pre-Order - Release Date: 15/07/2024

Original title: Le Samouraï

Year: 1967
Country: France
Region Code: 4K UHD: A/B/C - Blu-Ray: B
Content: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060952892509

Image: 1.85:1 (2160p)

HDR: HDR10

Audio: French LPCM Mono

Subtitles: English

Rating: 12

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Francois Périer

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville


Synopsis:

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.

Additional features:

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
• Interviews with Rui Nogueira, editor of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris
• Melville-Delon: D'honneur et de nuit (2011), a short documentary exploring the friendship between the director and the actor and their iconic collaboration on Le samouraï
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Thomson, an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo, and excerpts from Melville on Melville
• New cover by Polly Dedman