Branded to Kill
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
From the archive
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.
Why this is free to watch
Branded to Kill (1967) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. No signup, no payment and no advertising interrupts playback. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Seijun Suzuki
- Starring
- Joe Shishido, Kōji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa, Annu Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Hiroshi Minami, Hiroshi Chō, Atsushi Yamatoya
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