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-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.
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Video piece featuring new interviews with director Seijun Suzuki and assistant director Masami Kuzuu
- Interview with Suzuki from 1997
- New interview with actor Joe Shishido
- Trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic and historian Tony Rayns
New cover by Eric Skillman
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Video piece featuring new interviews with director Seijun Suzuki and assistant director Masami Kuzuu
- Interview with Suzuki from 1997
- New interview with actor Joe Shishido
- Trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic and historian Tony Rayns
New cover by Eric Skillman

Cast
- Joe Shishido
- Goro Hanada
- Koji Nanbara
- Number One
- Isao Tamagawa
- Michihiko Nakajo
- Annu Mari
- Misako Nakajo
- Mariko Ogawa
- Mami Hanada
- Hiroshi Minami
- Gihei Kasuga
Credits
- Director
- Seijun Suzuki
- Producer
- Kaneo Iwai
- Assistant director
- Masami Kuzuu
- Screenplay
- Hachiro Guryu
- Cinematography
- Kazue Nagatsuka
- Editing
- Matsuo Tanji
- Production design
- Sukezo Kawahara
- Music
- Naozumi Yamamoto



