Rififi in Tokyo

1963 French-Italian crime film

Rififi in Tokyo

Directed by| Jacques Deray
Written by| Auguste Le Breton (novel)
José Giovanni
Jacques Deray
Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud
José Giovanni
Produced by| Jacques Bar
Luigi Nannerini
Starring| Karlheinz Böhm
Charles Vanel
Barbara Lass
Cinematography| Tadashi Aramaki
Edited by| Albert Jurgenson
Music by| Georges Delerue

Production
companies

Compagnia Cinematografica Mondiale
Compagnie Internationale de Productions Cinématographiques

Distributed by| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Release date

* 29 March 1963 (1963-03-29)

Running time

| 98 minutes
Countries| France
Italy
Language| French

Rififi in Tokyo (French: Rififi à Tokyo) is a 1963 French-Italian crime film directed by Jacques Deray and starring Karlheinz Böhm, Charles Vanel and Barbara Lass.[1]

## Plot

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The veteran gangster Van Hekken arrives in Tokyo to pull off a heist of a precious diamond from a bank vault. However, when his planned second-in command is killed he turns to the dead man's friend Carl Mersen.

## Cast

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* Karlheinz Böhm as Carl Mersen
* Charles Vanel as Van Hekken
* Barbara Lass as Françoise Merigné
* Keiko Kishi as Asami
* Michel Vitold as Pierre Merigné
* Eiji Okada as Danny Riquet
* Masao Oda as Kan
* Dante Maggio as Luigi
* Hideaki Suzuki as Itoushi
* Eijiro Yanagi as Ishimoto

## References

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1. ^ Monaco p.160

## Bibliography

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* Monaco, James. The Encyclopedia of Film. Perigee Books, 1991.

## External links

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* Rififi in Tokyo at IMDb

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Jacques Deray

Films directed|

* The Gigolo (1960)
* Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
* Symphony for a Massacre (1963)
* Crime on a Summer Morning (1965)
* To Skin a Spy (1966)
* That Man George (1966)
* La Piscine (1969)
* Borsalino (1970)
* Easy, Down There! (1971)
* Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1971)
* The Outside Man (1972)
* Borsalino & Co. (1974)
* Flic Story (1975)
* Le Gang (1977)
* Butterfly on the Shoulder (1978)
* Three Men to Kill (1980)
* Le Marginal (1983)
* He Died with His Eyes Open (1985)
* Le Solitaire (1987)
* Maladie d'amour (1987)
* Les Bois noirs (1989)
* Contre l'oubli (1991)
* Netchaïev est de retour (1991)
* Un crime [fr] (1993)
* 3000 scénarios contre un virus (segment: "Arnaud et ses copains") (1994)
* The Teddy Bear (1994)
* Clarissa [fr] (1998)
* On n'a qu'une vie (2000)
* Lettre d'une inconnue (2001)

See also|

* Jacques Deray Prize

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José Giovanni

Films written
and directed|

* Last Known Address (1970)
* La Scoumoune (1972)
* Two Men in Town (1973)
* The Gypsy (1975)
* Boomerang (1976)
* Les Égouts du paradis (1979)
* The Ruffian (1983)
* Among Wolves (1985)

Films written
only|

* Du rififi chez les femmes (1959)
* Classe Tous Risques (1960)
* The Hole (1960)
* A Man Named Rocca (1961)
* Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
* Symphony for a Massacre (1963)
* The Wise Guys (1965)
* That Man George (1966)
* To Skin a Spy (1966)
* The Last Adventure (1967)
* Ho! (1968)
* The Sicilian Clan (1969)

Novels|

* The Break (1957)
* Le deuxième souffle (1958)

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