Koroshi no Rakuin
Branded to Kill
(c)1967 NIKKATSU CORPORATION
(c)1967 NIKKATSU CORPORATION
- Release Date
- June, 15th, 1967
- Running Time
- 91 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Monochrome
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Cinema Scope
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
- IWAI Kaneo ── Planned by
[ Cast ]
- SHISHIDO Joe ── HANAD Goro
- MARI Annu ── NAKAJO Misako
- NAMBARA Koji ── No.1 killer
[ Staff ]
- GURYU Hachiro ── Screenplay
- SUZUKI Akira ── Editing
- NAGATSUKA Kazue ── Cinematography
- YAMAMOTO Naozumi ── Music
- KAWAHARA Sukezo ── Art Director
[ Production Company ]
NIKKATSU
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
NIKKATSU
[ Story ]
Suzuki's notoriously off-the-wall masterpiece about professional hitmen vying for rank subverted the template of the action films Nikkatsu was then mass-producing while also pushing at the limits of cinematic expression. When Hanada, the Japanese underworld's third-ranked hitman, botches a job he receives from a mysterious beautiful woman, he ends up a wanted man. To make matters worse, the Number One Killer is gunning for him too... A work bursting with free-wheeling energy, the film shares something of the zeitgeist-defining quality of Suzuki's contemporary Jean-Luc Godard. The shootout on the pier and Hanada's fetish for the smell of boiling rice elicit gasps and smiles in turn.
Written by HOSHI Ryotaro
Translated by Adam Sutherland
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
2022 Venice International Film Festival, Venice Classics, Award for Best Restored Film
[ Contact (International) ]
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