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Rice-Sniffing Antihero Duels the Phantom Number One Killer
Hitman Hanada (Joe Shishido) sniffs the aroma of hot-boiled rice like other film anti-heros drink whiskey. He always keeps a straight face. He wears sunglasses at night. Hanada is a professional assassin for hire with the ranking of "Number Three Killer" in the Yakuza (Japanese mob) underworld... Read full review »
Suzuki's surrealistic 1967 hitman movie
Cinema noir is widely admired for visual stylization that was at least in part a response to low budgets. One of the last true noirs was the 1967 "Branded to Kill" (Koroshi no rakuin), directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring the chipmunk-cheeked Joe Shishido as the third-best hitman in Japan. Over... Read full review »
Lurid hit-man pulp fiction from Japan
This hit-man tale is a legendary cult flick from Japanese
director Seijun Suzuki, who made some 42 movies for the
downmarket Nikkatsu studios until this particular one (originally "Koroshi No Rakuin") got him fired, supposedly because the plot made no sense. I gotta tell ya, while I had...
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Branded to Kill
A not-quite tongue-in-cheek send-up of Japanese censorship and pat, by-the-numbers "Yakuza" gangster films, this gonzo feature follows a lower-level underworld assassin as he's toyed with and tormented by a higher-up after botching a job. Suzuki's strategically placed animated sequences obscured "offending" material, thwarting censors and delighting fans of the director's black humor.
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