Featured Audience Ratings

• Greg S

  
  Hamada, the #3 killer with the rice-sniffing fetish, finds himself in trouble with the Organization after he falls in love with a woman with a death wish. BRANDED drips with 60s cool and is a near-perfect work of neo-surrealism in that, although the details often don't make… More
  Hamada, the #3 killer with the rice-sniffing fetish, finds himself in trouble with the Organization after he falls in love with a woman with a death wish. BRANDED drips with 60s cool and is a near-perfect work of neo-surrealism in that, although the details often don't make sense, the big picture always does. Contains the memorable scenes of Hamada assassinating a man by shooting up a drainpipe and botching a hit when a butterfly lands on his gun barrel.

• Randy T

  
  Nonsensical violence with some of the most poorly choreographed gunfights you'll ever see. A macabre train-wreck of a film that draws you in by appealing to that warped, illogical, action-craving part of your brain that everyone has and few acknowledge.

• Arash X

  
  Not the weird for the sake of being weird movie that I expected but has many unconventional & absurd moments, Overall fun & funny

• Tsubaki S

  
  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,… More
  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's no other movie like Branded to Kill, and will never be.

• El Hombre I

  
  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… 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 film when complete, Suzuki was fired on the spot from the studio. It's been said that this is about as close to traditional yakuza pictures as Godard's "Alphaville" is to science fiction and should you choose to see this, you'll strongly agree, afterwards....hell, maybe even 15 minutes into it. Everything from death, love, sex, car chases, and even walking through a hallway are tweaked by Suzuki's creative vision. To shove things into the studio's face even more, Seijun Suzuki remade his own film around the turn of the century as Pistol Opera. <a href="http://s111.photobucket.com/albums/n122/wickedwalrus/?action=view¤t=brandedtokillwide90.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n122/wickedwalrus/brandedtokillwide90.jpg" border="0" alt="branded to kill 3"></a>

• Ken S

  
  It's Ghost Dog,,,on Japaneses LSD with alot of sex throne in for flavor

• Chris B

  
  The famous and extreme film that got Seijun Suzuki fired after it's release and nearly destroyed his career, now over 40 years since it's release the film is heralded as a classic from an auteur and is praised alongside such Directors as Fuller and Godard. I've seen… More
  The famous and extreme film that got Seijun Suzuki fired after it's release and nearly destroyed his career, now over 40 years since it's release the film is heralded as a classic from an auteur and is praised alongside such Directors as Fuller and Godard. I've seen Suzuki films and after viewing "Tokyo Drifter" a couple days ago (Which is also reviewed in my blog) I thought that his films couldn't push the envelope that much more but boy was I wrong! "Branded to Kill" is Suzuki at his most extreme of extremes! This film is of the same essence as "Tokyo Drifter" but fueled up and nearly dreamlike throughout the entire film with it's striking B&W cinematography and editing that is truly dreamlike and even humorous in it's progression of timing. The film is filled with both action and drama and some truly outrageous and simply strange scenes, most of which involve the main character Hanada Goro and his fetish for sniffing boiling rice. The film also plays out like a wonderful and surreal thriller in the ways of some of the assassinations as well as the various character's and their bizarre issues. All this said, If you are looking for something truly different and unique as well as a damn fine film filled with style to spare and created by a true film auteur, then this is one hell of a ride!

• Lesley N

  
  Black and white Japanese yakuza thingy, and if that sounds vague then blame the film, because I didn't have a clue what was going on most of the time. This was the film that got Suzuki the director banned from the studio for "making movies that made no sense and no… More
  Black and white Japanese yakuza thingy, and if that sounds vague then blame the film, because I didn't have a clue what was going on most of the time. This was the film that got Suzuki the director banned from the studio for "making movies that made no sense and no money" though apparently now its seen as an "absurdist masterpiece" whatever that is. Anyway there's lots of shooting and jangly music, and a couple of women who keep losing their clothes for some reason, and a room full of dead butterflies. If thats any help.

• Quinto W

  
  Sometimes the very own weirdness of the movie (not that there's too much or too complicated) sinks it a little, though without it the story would be too simple as told, but it's saved by the fact that it's always easy to follow, rather engaging, some humor and an… More
  Sometimes the very own weirdness of the movie (not that there's too much or too complicated) sinks it a little, though without it the story would be too simple as told, but it's saved by the fact that it's always easy to follow, rather engaging, some humor and an interesting lead character.

• Robert F

  
  Strange. Didn't really do anything for me.

• Christopher B

  
  The film that got Suzuki fired is a perfect example of what happens when you let artistic freedom run free on a studio genre picture. This is teh equivalent of someone turning a formula action pic like Mr and Mrs. Smith, into an artistic achievement. Sure it's good for folks… More
  The film that got Suzuki fired is a perfect example of what happens when you let artistic freedom run free on a studio genre picture. This is teh equivalent of someone turning a formula action pic like Mr and Mrs. Smith, into an artistic achievement. Sure it's good for folks like me, but most audience members and studios like to get what they pay for, and it would bomb and there'd be hell to pay. Hats off to Suzuki for continuing to have a successful career after this amazing film.

• Wu C

  
  Great Campy samurai gangster film. Mixes humour, drama & violence quite nicely. Ahead of it's time. Suzuki was blacklisted for years after making this one.

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