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Branded to Kill (Pan & Scan)

Branded to Kill (Pan & Scan)

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A not-quite tongue-in-cheek send-up of Japanese censorship and pat, by-the-numbers "Yakuza" gangster films, this gonzo feature follows a lower-level underworld assassin as he's toyed with and tormented by a higher-up after botching a job. Suzuki's strategically placed animated sequences obscured "offending" material, thwarting censors and delighting fans of the director's black humor.

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Branded to Kill (Pan & Scan)

General
Director

Seijun Suzuki

Genre

Foreign Films

Sub-Genre

Japanese

Video Format

Pan & Scan

UPC

037429136225

Release Date

02/23/1999

Running Time

1 hour 31 minutes

MPAA Rating

Not Rated

Language

Japanese

Number of Discs

1

Media Format

DVD

Notes

Criterion Collection

Special Features
General
DVD Features:

Region 1

Keep Case

Single Layer

Full Frame - 1.33

Additional Release Material:

Interviews: Seijun Suzuki

Format
Video Format
Pan & Scan

Subtitled
English

Cast & Crew
Cast
Jo Shishido; Mariko Ogawa; Annu Mari; Koji Nanbara

Director
Seijun Suzuki

Producer
Kaneo Iwai

Screenwriter
Hachiro Guryu

Composer
Naozumi Yamamoto

Cinematographer
Kazue Nagatsuka

Miscellaneous
Muze Description
A not-quite tongue-in-cheek send-up of Japanese censorship and pat, by-the-numbers "Yakuza" gangster films, this gonzo feature follows a lower-level underworld assassin as he's toyed with and tormented by a higher-up after botching a job. Suzuki's strategically placed animated sequences obscured "offending" material, thwarting censors and delighting fans of the director's black humor.

Synopsis
In this cinematic masterpiece Seijan Suzuki transcends the B-movie genre. Fired after making it, he was unable to work for ten years. Branded to Kill follows the strange day-to-day existence of an expert hit-man who carries out his orders with steely determination and impassive cool. All hell breaks loose, however, when a butterfly alighting on his rifle scope results in a botched job, and a death sentence for the screw-up. Joe Shishido, with his collagen-enhanced cheekbones, makes a terrific antihero whose unusual quirks (Suzuki reasoned that a man obsessed with the scent of warm rice would signal to audiences that this guy was quintessentially Japanese) instantly endear him to newly-made fans.


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