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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.
Original Release
06/15/1967
US Release
11/11/2012
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Jô Shishido | Gorô Hanada |
Mariko Ogawa | Mami Hanada |
Annu Mari | Misako Nakajô |
Koji Nanbara | No. 1 |
Isao Tamagawa | Michihiko Yabuhara |
Hiroshi Minami | Gihei Kasuga |
Hiroshi Chô | Bartender |
Takashi Nomura | |
Tokuhei Miyahara | |
Hiroshi Midorikawa | Optometrist |
Directors
Writers
Atsushi Yamatoya, Takeo Kimura, Chûsei Sone, Mitsutoshi Ishigami, Hachiro Guryu
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jô Shishido | Gorô Hanada |
Mariko Ogawa | Mami Hanada |
Annu Mari | Misako Nakajô |
Koji Nanbara | No. 1 |
Isao Tamagawa | Michihiko Yabuhara |
Hiroshi Minami | Gihei Kasuga |
Hiroshi Chô | Bartender |
Takashi Nomura | |
Tokuhei Miyahara | |
Hiroshi Midorikawa | Optometrist |
Akira Hisamatsu | (as Kôsuke Hisamatsu) / Jeweler |
Iwae Arai | |
Yû Izumi | |
Kyôji Mizuki | |
Masaaki Honme | |
Mitsuru Sawa | |
Shirô Tonami | |
Akira Takahashi | |
Shinzô Shibata | |
Tessen Nakahira |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kaneo Iwai | Producer |
Takiko Mizunoe | Producer |