Dazzling new favorite

I received a pair of DVDs from Amazon yesterday -- "Tokyo Nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter)" and "Koroshi No Rakuin (Branded to Kill)" -- both 1960s yakuza-eiga (gangster films) by Seijun Suzuki.
I watched "Tokyo Nagaremono" when I returned home from work last night.
What a spectacle!
Suzuki uses colors so masterfully. Protagonist Tetsu strolls through a snowy landscape in his bright, sky-blue suit... His girlfriend Chiharu sings in a nightclub completely cast in canary yellow... Villainous Otsuka wears a bright-red suit and barks murderous orders into a similarly bright-red telephone.
Then, there are the gunfights.
Staged, obviously, and stylish to the point of unreality. But who cares?
When Tetsu tosses a gun on the ground, causing his attackers to momentarily relax, only for Tetsu to leap for it and fire off three deadly rounds almost simultaneously, the viewer is too caught up in the excitement to worry about reality versus unreality.
Suzuki's film company famously fired him for making "incomprehensible" films.
In his defense, the auteur claimed he only bended the rules of the yakuza-eiga genre because he wanted to keep his audience from becoming bored.
After last night, I side with Seijun Suzuki.
Oh, and did I mention Tetsu strolls through the film singing his own theme song? That's the type of uber-cool thing I would like to do!