Branded to Kill.
When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired.. Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice (the chipmunk-cheek...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English |
| Published: |
[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Criterion Collection/Janus Films,
1967.
Kanopy Streaming, 2016. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video |
| Summary: | When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired.. Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice (the chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Suzuki at his most extreme—the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop-art aesthetic.. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Film Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time: | 01:31:19 |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |