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Branded to Kill

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Pistol Opera

Original title

Koroshi no rakuin (Branded to Kill)aka

AKA

Branded to Kill

Year

1967

Running time

98 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Seijun Suzuki

Screenwriter

Hachiro Guryu, Takeo Kimura, Chusei Sone, Atsushi Yamatoya

Cast

Music

Naozumi Yamamoto

Cinematography

Kazue Nagatsuka (B&W)

Producer

Nikkatsu

Genre

Action. Film noir. Drama | Yakuza & Triad

Synopsis

The film's story centers on Hanada, a.k.a. "No. 3 Killer," the third-best hit man in Japanese organized crime. Near the top of his game, his fortunes change when he encounters Misako, a mysterious, death-obsessed woman who brings him a particularly difficult mission. In a famous moment indicative of the film's eccentric sensibility, a butterfly lands on his gun's sight at the exact moment he pulls the trigger, causing him to miss the shot. This failure means that the killer becomes the target, and must run for his life from his former employers, and the mysterious "No. 1 Killer." While the film does contain some spectacular action sequences, the story is played less as a suspense thriller than as a surrealistic, psychosexual nightmare, filled with grotesque imagery and strange touches, from Hanada's fetish for the smell of boiling rice, to Misako's use of a dead bird's corpse as a rear-view mirror decoration.

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Branded to Kill

1967

Seijun Suzuki

6.6

(1,191)