“Branded to Kill” is Seijun Suzuki’s absurdist nihilistic statement. A film compelled by Freudian drives, surreally, brought into the bright light of day. From this perspective, the utterly insane plot makes deranged sense. Suzuki worked with a team of writers, in a daring collaborative effort; to bash the out script in double quick time. The studio, Nikkatsu rejected the initial script by another writer. Suzuki took this to mean that the studio was out of ideas, so eight men frantically wrote a script, and Suzuki bolted it altogether in a riot of cinema!
Action and eroticism were the popular fashions in Japanese cinema through 1966/1967, so Suzuki intended to give the studio what they want! This slice of pragmatism led to him being fired, a long law-suit and being blacklisted for a decade.
“Branded to Kill” is an anarchic gangster film, jarring in tone, brutal in action and wild in sex,...
Action and eroticism were the popular fashions in Japanese cinema through 1966/1967, so Suzuki intended to give the studio what they want! This slice of pragmatism led to him being fired, a long law-suit and being blacklisted for a decade.
“Branded to Kill” is an anarchic gangster film, jarring in tone, brutal in action and wild in sex,...
- 5/29/2020
- by Jonathan Wilson
- AsianMoviePulse
Stars: Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa, Anne Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Hiroshi Minami | Written by Hachiro Guryu, Takeo Kimura | Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Writing movie reviews opens up a world that is full of films that I probably would never have had the chance to see. Branded to Kill (Koroshi no rakuin) is one of these and Arrow Video have taken the movie and given it their usual excellent treatment, providing a chance to see it in its best form.
The story revolves around a hit-man who is ranked three with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice. When he fails at his latest job the woman who paid for the hit comes into conflict with him, pushing him into a fight consumed with her own death wish. Finding that his wife also now wants to kill him for his failure and the number one ranked hit-man known as the Phantom...
Writing movie reviews opens up a world that is full of films that I probably would never have had the chance to see. Branded to Kill (Koroshi no rakuin) is one of these and Arrow Video have taken the movie and given it their usual excellent treatment, providing a chance to see it in its best form.
The story revolves around a hit-man who is ranked three with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice. When he fails at his latest job the woman who paid for the hit comes into conflict with him, pushing him into a fight consumed with her own death wish. Finding that his wife also now wants to kill him for his failure and the number one ranked hit-man known as the Phantom...
- 8/20/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
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