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Coming in May on Blu-ray in Australia from #NewWaveVideo: #AColtIsMyPassport (1967)!

Widely regarded as one of the greatest Japanese crime films of all time, A Colt Is My Passport is a lean, mean masterpiece from Nikkatsu’s golden era.

‘Havoc’ Director’s A COLT IS MY PASSPORT Remake Wraps Filming, Announces Cast A reunion for Gareth Huw Evans and “Gangs Of London” lead Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù feels appropriate at this stage. That show was a hit for which Evans was exec producer for its run and now the two have since reunited for Evans’s latest directorial effort in the UK with a remake of Takashi Nomura’s 1967 yakuza crime flick, A Colt Is My Passport. The project, hailing from Amazon MGM Studios and Orion Pictures, was announced earlier this summer and, according to Andreas Wiseman’s Deadline exclusive on Tuesday, has since wrapped production in the UK. A cast has also been announced as well with Dìrísù leading the roster that lists Tim Roth, Jack Reynor, Lucy Boynton, Victor Alli, Ewan Mitchell, Burn Gorman, and Noah Taylor. Evans also rejoins Chris Webb, a member of the stunt unit on Evans’s Netflix releases, Havoc and Apostle, whose script is set in 1978 Detroit and centers […] The post ‘Havoc’ Director’s A COLT IS MY PASSPORT Remake Wraps Filming, Announces Cast first appeared on Film Combat Syndicate.

‘Havoc’ Director’s A COLT IS MY PASSPORT Remake Wraps Filming, Announces Cast: A reunion for Gareth Huw Evans and “Gangs Of London” lead Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù feels appropriate at this stage. That show was a hit for which Evans was exec producer for its run and now the two… #Casting #News #acoltismypassport

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The scene ends as the character leans and camera pans to a carphone, then there’s a hard cut into the shiny carphone speaker.

All along the motions have compelled us from cut to cut.

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The camera quickly pans back and forth between characters: L-R, R-L. We expect another L-R whip, but! at 0:35 instead it hard cuts to one of those characters now in a car. We’re still moving L-R, as conversation continues unbroken.

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Dust puffs transition into smoke rising as the now-cubed car emerges from the crusher moving L-R. This movement eases us into to a wider shot, the first without the car where both camera and two characters are moving L-R.

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Off the car slide / camera tilt downward, the sequence cuts to a still frame where a crusher continues the downward motion; again, keeping the idea ‘this is the same car’ through similar movements across cuts. Dust puffs as the crusher fully closes, and then . . .

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The car spins in a still frame, pieces disintegrating before cutting to only its skeleton; note it’s sliding the same direction it was turning in the prior shot, connecting the idea so we don’t have to wonder ‘is this the same car.’ As it slides, the camera tilts w/ it . . .

The transitions in this #AColtismyPassport sequence are art in service of its own mini-story as evidence is destroyed - all in a thug's day's work.

The camera pans to draw our attention to the crusher and spurting fire, before an insert shot reminds us the importance of a briefcase inside.

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Poster for 1967 film with the title in red (Japanese) at the bottom and a photo of two men in suits pointing guns in different directions while i woman cowers below them.

65) A Colt is My Passport (1967)

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