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. [show more]
After making Branded to Kill director Suzuki Seijun got fired because, according to his studio, his films made no sense OR money. Now, not many people or films could boast that, but ...
Branded to Kill, however, does feature a hitman - number three killer - who can only get sexually aroused when he smells boiling rice. When one of his targets gets away, a butterfly lands on his guns sight just as he is going to pull the trigger, he becomes the number one target of the number one killer in Japan. From this basic premise we are given one of the maddest and most entertaining action films of all time.
Now 40 or so years after its release it is a well established cult classic. Cooler than cool, if Tarantino actually admitted how much he liked this film (instead of desperately denying it) he would probably have to start paying Suzuki rights.
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Cult director Seijun Suzuki's stylish gangster classic. Gunman Hanada Goro is ranked No 3 killer in the Tokyo underworld, but when he accepts a new job from the beautiful mystery woman Misako it signals the beginning of the end for his illustrious career. Hanada bungles the job - a butterfly lands on his rifle sights just as he was about to take aim - and according to the strict rules under which the assassins operate, this is not something which can go unpunished. Thus Hanada finds himself entering into a deadly conflict with the legendary No.1 killer, the assassin sent to avenge Hanada's fatal error.
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