Branded To Kill (1967)
What:
Branded To Kill (1967)
Where:
Madman DVD
When:
Now available, with other Suzuki films like Tokyo Drifter and Youth of the Beast soon to be released.
Watch the trailer:
here
Win:
We have five Branded To Kill DVDs to give away. Email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject line ‘boiled rice is twice as nice’.
Everyone has a cinema aesthetic they'd secretly like to live inside. Tim Burton's gothic whimsy? Michael Bay's hyper-saturated blockbuster sheen? Don't make your final decision until you've witnessed Seijun Sukuzi's Branded To Kill.
Hanada is Japan's #3 killer, with a "peculiar quirk" for the smell ofboiled rice and strangely padded cheeks that make him look like the Radiator Girl from Eraserhead.Things go wrong when he falls for a death-obsessed femme fatale whodecorates her apartment with butterfly corpses. Suzuki was famouslyfired for deviating from the script and making "movies that make nosense and no money." Much like Chan-wook Park's recent cult smash Old Boy, Branded To Kill transforms into a completely different film every twenty minutes or so, and each one of them is fascinating.
It's violent, playful, haunting, and sadistic; a gangster film twisted into a psychosexual, surrealist classic where every scene could be amovie of its own. Just try to imagine the Hollywood remake. (You know they'll get around to it any day now.) Finally – Branded To Kill is one of the goddamn best-looking movies you'll ever see.
Format: DVD
Mood: Make a therapy appointment now
Keywords: Seijun Sukuzi, Japan, Tokyo Drifter, Youth of the Beast, Gangster
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