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Branded to Kill [1967] [Criterion] (DVD)
Synopsis
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 (Koroshi no rakuin) 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.
Special Features:
- High-definition digital restoration
- Interviews with director Seijun Suzuki and assistant director Masami Kuzuu
- Interview with Suzuki from 1997
- Interview with actor Joe Shishido
- Trailer
- English subtitle translation
- An essay by critic and historian Tony Rayns
Product Details
- Format: Widescreen
- Language: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 12/13/2011
- Run Time: 91 minutes
- Catalogue #: 38
- Region: 1
