"Director: Suzuki Seijun"

• Tokyo Drifter | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £19.96   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this ""free-jazz gangster film "" ""Phoenix"" Tetsu drifts around Japan awaiting his own extinction until he's called back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. Equal parts Russ Meyer Nagisa Oshima and Frank Tashlin this ""barrage of aesthetic violence visual gags and mind-warping color effects"" once again put director Seijin Suzuki in trouble with Nikkatsu studio heads who had ordered him to ""play it straight this time""...

• Branded To Kill | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (46.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Generally agreed upon to be Suzuki's finest work the film charts the progress of 'Number 3 Killer' Hanado an ice-cool Japanese hitman who get more than he bargained for when he agrees to make a hit for a beautiful girl. On the run and in danger from all sides Hanado must ultimately face the 'No.1 Killer'... A surreal and stunning fusion of '60's pop-aesthetic yakuza thriller raucous sex perverse desires staggering violence and delirious nightmare Branded To Kill is a unique thriller and a towering work of Art. Nikkatsu the studio that financed the film found the film was so intense and incomprehensible that Suzuki was immediately fired! Today it is regarded as his masterpiece.