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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.
Original Release
10/25/1967
US Release
06/30/2015
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Alain Delon | Jef Costello |
François Perier | Le Commissaire / Superintendant |
Nathalie Delon | Jane Lagrange |
Cathy Rosier | La pianiste / Valérie |
Jacques Leroy | L'homme de la passerelle / Walkway Man |
Michel Boisrond | Wiener |
Robert Favart | Le barman / Bartender |
Jean-Pierre Posier | Olivier Rey |
Catherine Jourdan | La jeune fille du vestiaire / Locker Room Girl |
Roger Fradet | 1er inspecteur / Inspector #1 |
Directors
Writers
Jean-Pierre Melville, Joan McLeod, Georges Pellegrin
Cast
Name | Character |
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Alain Delon | Jef Costello |
François Perier | Le Commissaire / Superintendant |
Nathalie Delon | Jane Lagrange |
Cathy Rosier | La pianiste / Valérie |
Jacques Leroy | L'homme de la passerelle / Walkway Man |
Michel Boisrond | Wiener |
Robert Favart | Le barman / Bartender |
Jean-Pierre Posier | Olivier Rey |
Catherine Jourdan | La jeune fille du vestiaire / Locker Room Girl |
Roger Fradet | 1er inspecteur / Inspector #1 |
Carlo Nell | 2ème inspecteur / Inspector #2 |
Robert Rondo | 3ème inspecteur / Inspector #3 |
André Salgues | Le garagiste / Garage Owner |
André Thorent | Policier - chauffeur de taxi / Policeman / Taxi Driver |
Jacques Deschamps | Policier speaker / Policeman Speaker |
Georges Casati | Damolini |
Jacques Léonard | Garcia |
Pierre Vaudier | 1er Policier de la visite nocturne / Policeman of the night visit #1 |
Maurice Magalon | 2ème Policier de la visite nocturne / Policeman of the night visit #2 |
Gaston Meunier | Maître d'hôtel / Hotel Manager |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Raymond Borderie | Producer |
Eugène Lépicier | Producer |