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Branded to Kill (1967)

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Branded to Kill

Seijun Suzuki | Japan | 1967 | M
Film

When

Wed 16 Jul 2025

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With its singular visual language and largely incomprehensible plot, Suzuki’s absurdist yakuza film is one of the key works of the Japanese New Wave. Led by a hitman (Jo Shishido) with a rice sniffing fetish who pursues a phantom-like villain and a death-obsessed femme fatale, this wild opus surrealistically satirises genre conventions inherent in the yakuza movie and film noir.

Though critically panned upon its release, leading Suzuki to be fired by his studio (Nikkatsu), it has gone on to be regarded as one of the defining works in the filmmaker’s oeuvre.

Format: DCP
Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Source: Janus
Courtesy: Janus
Runtime: 92 mins

Event duration

92 mins

Rating

M

Moderate violence, Moderate sex scene and nudity

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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