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DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 23, 1999
Running Time
1 hour, 38 minutes
Country Japan
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Other Titles
• Branded to Kill (1967)
• Beruf Mörder (1967)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Gangsters, Black Comedy, Satire, Experimental, Surreal
Plot: 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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Jo Shishido
Fugitive Alien, Doomed Megalopolis: The Haunting of Tokyo, Hokusai manga | | | Koji Nambara
Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru, Ningen no joken I, Yami no naka no chimimoryo | | | |
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