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Branded to Kill

Durata
91 minCriterion Collection spine 38 catalogue presentation Fonti delle versioni ↓

An assassin botches a job and becomes a target in a crime story driven by strange obsessions and abrupt turns.

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Paese di produzione
Japan (Si apre in inglese)
Lingua
Japanese
StrangeTense Meglio tenerlo per dopo · Per spettatori pazienti
Branded to Kill 1967

Cosa aspettarsi

The basic reversal is easy to grasp: the killer becomes the person in danger. Around that hinge, Suzuki pushes the yakuza film towards visual invention and eccentricity. Rather than asking every unusual detail to act as a conventional clue, attend to how an obsession or image changes the pressure of a scene. The film offers a deliberately unstable encounter with crime-story expectations, not a tidy account of professional competence.

Come avvicinarsi al film

Keep the botched job and the resulting threat as your bearings. You do not need to make every transition feel realistic before continuing. Follow the contrast between the assassin's professional role and his very unprofessional distractions.

Da sapere

Una breve nota non esaustiva Contract killing, violence, sexual material and obsessive behaviour. Surreal shifts can make the sequence of events difficult to place.
Momo staring dreamily with a little drool

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  • Non l’ha ancora visto.
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  • Troppo brutto per descriverlo a parole.

Crediti e versioni

Mappa delle versioni

Janus Films catalogue presentation (listing checked 2026-10-27) 91 min Named Janus catalogue listing only. Formats listed by the distributor do not prove a single cut, restoration or stream presentation; no runtime was measured. Fonte: Janus Films Verificato il 2026-10-27
Criterion Collection spine 38 catalogue presentation 91 min · home video Listed catalogue duration only. The Janus presentation and Channel stream are not established as the same cut, restoration or transfer; no stream runtime was measured. Fonte: The Criterion Collection Riferimento per la durata · Verificato il 2026-10-27

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