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Branded to Kill

Branded to Kill

Action Thriller Crime

1967, Movie, 1h 31min

When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired. BRANDED TO KILL tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice (the chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Suzuki at his most extreme—the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop-art aesthetic.

Country: Japan

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Cast:

Akira Takahashi,

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Critic David Parkinson

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8

...visually dazzling, stylistically anarchic and endlessly entertaining.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Mark Kermode

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8

...remains an arresting cocktail of sex, violence and surrealism...

Read full review at The Guardian

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