- Réalisateur·rice
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Jean-Pierre Melville
- Scénariste
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Georges Pellegrin
Jean-Pierre Melville
- Directeur·rice photo
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Henri Decaë
- Avec
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Alain Delon
François Périer
Nathalie Delon
Cathy Rosier
Catherine Jourdan
Jacques Leroy
Michel Boisrond
Robert Favart
- Genres
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Policier, Thriller
- Résumé
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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.
