Annu Mari, Hiroshi Minami, Isao Tamagawa
A murder musical-chairs that follows No. 3 Killer as he impeccably offs his adversaries, including No. 2 Killer. When No. 3 Killer bungles a hit when a butterfly settles on his rifle, he becomes No. 1...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 23, 1999
Stats: 242 reviews
Style made into substance. Just like Hausu, this is another movie that feels like it droped from some alternative dimension. Writting a review for this is beyond the point, you either going to dig this or not. Even if you end up disliking it by the end the fact will remain, there...( read more)
Seijun Suzuki's Branded To Kill is a yakuza film for a unique sort of audience. The movie studio had approaced Suzuki to do a gangster flick and had given him a scipt with strong rules to follow. He disregarded and gave them Branded To Kill. Upon studio heads previewing the fil...( read more)
HAHAHAHA!!! This film is so weird, I can't count how many time I was like WTF is going on. It's ultraviolent, kinky, and totally incomprehensible! I really can't blame the studio for firing Suzuki after he made this film.
It's Ghost Dog,,,on Japaneses LSD with alot of sex throne in for flavor
A bizarre Yakuza film. I like Suzuki's unconventional direction and his way of pissing off the movie industry
Not the weird for the sake of being weird movie that I expected but has many unconventional & absurd moments, Overall fun & funny
The third best killer in Japan wants to be the number one killer in Japan. That's basically the bare minium of the plot, and that's all you need for Seijun Suzuki's mindbinding freakout of a Yakuza film. This isn't a movie you watch, this is a movie you let wash over you until it...( read more)
"Un Chien Adalou" inspired Yakuza film, with some of the finest editing Ive ever seen (that goes for the black and white cinematography too).
Butterflies, bullets, mirrors, again and again as death, action, and cinema, refracted around themselves and each other, in a whirl wi...( read more)
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