Branded to Kill (Criterion Collection) by Joe Shishido

Yes I should have read the description very very closely, but the front cover is all in English. Of course being a BR I can't easily rip it and combine it with downloaded subs.

Great!!!...

This deliriously violent piece of yakuza surrealism throws genre conventions out the window and instead breaks rules in the best ways imaginable.

great movie!

This is truly a very bizarre film. It's surreal, it's like a dream, a nightmare. This is a film that could only be made by a genius like Seijun Suzuki. It's so weird and crazy that led Nikkatsu firing Suzuki.....!!! The cinematography is stunning, the music is fantastic and adds a lot to the atmospere, but above all is the extraordinare perfect direction by Suzuki. Be prepared and pay attention because the movie is diverse! Branded to kill is a really unique and surreal thriller.

Low budget, but pure artistry on the go. (Ed Wood would have been in raptures.) Seijun Suzuki takes us by the hand into a beautiful world of innocence, instant art, driven by action, sex blended with a sensual surrealism that captured the soul and feel of the 60's. Like the smell of rice, being Japanese, just made the whole experience even sweeter.

Incoherent, disconnected, just did not work for me. maybe a cultural disconnect on my part.

Great release from Arrow of the the super-artsy yakuza tale ’Branded to Kill’ (1967).Nikkatsu did fire Suzuki over this movie, he sued them back, and ended up blacklisted for 10 years. But on the other hand, I it also made him an icon and a legend in the ”counterculture” anti-mainstream society.’Branded to Kill’ has been dissected and praised so many times, and I guess it needs no poor analyses from a simple minded action/horror-nerd like me, but I would say it’s a superb blend of Arthouse and genre cinema with a visual language that's impossible not to get mesmerized by.And what about Shishido Jō? Ain't he the coolest squirrel you ever saw?