Le samouraï
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.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION 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
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION 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
Cast
- Alain Delon
- Jef Costello
- François Périer
- Superintendent
- Nathalie Delon
- Jane Lagrange
- Cathy Rosier
- Valérie, the pianist
- Jacques Leroy
- Man in the passageway
- Michel Boisrond
- Wiener
- Robert Favart
- Bartender
- Jean-Pierre Posier
- Olivier Rey
- Catherine Jourdan
- Hatcheck girl
- Roger Fradet
- First inspector
- Carlo Nell
- Second inspector
- Robert Rondo
- Third inspector
- André Salgues
- Mechanic
- Georges Casati
- Damolini
- Jean Gold
- First nightclub client
- Georges Billy
- Second nightclub client
Credits
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Producer
- Raymond Borderie
- Producer
- Eugène Lépicier
- Screenplay
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Director of photography
- Henri Decaë
- Camera operator (studio)
- Jean Charvein
- Camera operator (exteriors)
- Henri Decaë
- Music
- François de Roubaix
- Production design
- François de Lamothe
- Production supervisor
- Georges Casati
- Assistant director
- Georges Pellegrin
- Editor
- Monique Bonnot
- Editor
- Yo Maurette
- Assistant editor
- Geneviève Adam
- Assistant editor
- Madeleine Bagiau
- Assistant editor
- Madeleine Guérin
- Assistant editor
- Geneviève Letellier
- Sound supervisor
- Alex Pront
- Sound editor
- Robert Pouret
- Sound engineer
- René Longuet
- Furniture and accessories
- Robert Christides
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Trailer for Le samouraï
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A scene from Le samouraï
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