Le Samourai 4K UHD + Blu-ray
'Le Samouraï' Director: Jean-Pierre Melville (1967) Criterion Collection 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray | French w/ English subtitles
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, he 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.
Special features include:
- 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
- Essay by film scholar David Thomson, an appreciation by filmmaker John Woo, and excerpts from Melville on Melville
