Man with a Shotgun (1961)

Original title

散弾銃の男

Directed by

Seijun Suzuki

Genre

Western film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A singing cowboy and trucker hunts down the men who raped and killed his girlfriend. He drives through the Japanese landscape on a path of revenge.

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What happens

Man with a Shotgun (散弾銃(ショットガン)の男, Shottogan no Otoko; aka The Man with the Hollow-Tip Bullets) is a 1961 Japanese Western film directed by Seijun Suzuki in the vein of the Nikkatsu Studio's "borderless action cinema". Hideaki Nitani stars as a singing cowboy and trucker who seeks revenge after his girlfriend is raped and murdered. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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