Samurai katana alain delon biography
Actor alain delon biography.
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.
Samurai katana alain delon biography
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.
Production Prelude: Melville's Pursuit of Perfection
After shooting Le doulos (The Informant) in 1962, Jean-Pierre Melville set his sights on adapting another Pierre Lesou novel, Main pleine.
For the lead character, he envisioned Alain Delon, who, over the past several years, had become one of France’s most talented young actors. But, with his career on the rise, Delon turned down Melville’s offer in anticipation of prestigious projec