Branded to Kill | 4K UHD + Blu-ray (Criterion)
RELEASE DATE: May 9, 2023
On May 9, 2023, Criterion is releasing the 4K UHD + Blu-ray for Branded to Kill, a 1967 Japanese cult classic from director Seijun Suzuki (The Sleeping Beast Within) and star Joe Shishido (Cruel Gun Story).
Official details:
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.
Features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Interviews with director Seijun Suzuki and assistant director Masami Kuzuu
- Interview with Suzuki from 1997
- Interview with actor Joe Shishido
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic and historian Tony Rayns
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