Le Samouraï (1967) on Blu-ray

Actor :               Alain Delon, Andre Salgues, Andre Thorent, Carlo Nell, Catherine Jourdan, Cathy Rosier, Francois Perier, Gaston Meunier, Georges Casati, Jack Leonard, Jacques Deschamps, Jacques Leroy, Jean-Pierre Posier, Michel Boisrond, Nathalie Delon, Robert Favart, Robert Rondo, Roger Fradet
Director:           Jean-Pierre Melville
Genre:               Drama
Year:                  1967
Studio:              Criterion Collection
Length:             105 minutes
Released:        25 October 1967
Rating:             Parental Guidance Suggested
Format:            Subtitled, Widescreen
Misc:                Subtitled, Widescreen
Language:       French
subtitles:         English

DESCRIPTION:

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 samourai is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interviews with Rui Nogueira, editor of Melville on Melville, and Ginette Vincendeau, author of Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris
- Archival interviews with Melville and actors Alain Delon, François Perier, Nathalie Delon, and Cathy Rosier
- 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 this film
- Trailer - PLUS: An essay by film scholar David Thomson, an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo, and excerpts from Melville on Melville