Branded to Kill (1967)

19671h 31mdir. Seijun SuzukiJapaneseJapanneo-noirfilm noir

Note: this print runs 91 minutes against a recorded 97 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Joe Shishido, Kōji Nanbara, Annu Mari, Isao Tamagawa, Hiroshi Minami

Directed by Seijun Suzuki

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Branded to Kill (Japanese: 殺しの烙印, Hepburn: Koroshi no Rakuin) is a 1967 Japanese black comedy and yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Joe Shishido, Koji Nanbara, Annu Mari and Mariko Ogawa. The story follows contract killer Goro Hanada as he is recruited by a mysterious woman named Misako for a seemingly impossible mission. When the mission fails, he is hunted by the phantom Number One Killer, whose methods threaten his life and sanity.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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