Presented By: Center for Japanese Studies
CJS Film Series | Branded to Kill (殺しの烙印 )
(1967) 98 minutes. NR.

Fully restored digital cinema presentation. Hanada (Joe Shishido), a.k.a. “No. 3 Killer,” the third-best hit man in Japanese organized crime has got a problem; the hunter has become the hunted thanks to a single missed shot. An avant-garde take on the Japanese New Wave that finds director Seijun Suzuki working at breakneck speed on what has been called a “surrealistic…nightmare” film. One that has influenced directors from John Woo to Jim Jaramusch, who even thanked Suzuki in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai.