Branded To Kill (Japanese)

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Branded To Kill (Japanese)

Seijun Suzuki's last film for Nikkatsu, "Branded To Kill" is the wildly perverse story of the Yakuza's rice-sniffing "Number Three Killer." Sleazy yet elegant, "Branded To Kill" deconstructs gangster cliches and eluded censorship by the Japanese film board with its inventive use of framing and mattes. From a cookie-cutter studio script, Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious and visually inspired masterpiece--and was promptly fired.

Vintage Japanese film ephemera from the collection of John Zorn.Interviews.