Wild shootouts and surgical killings: Hanada leads an exciting life. He loves his wife and the scent of cooking rice. And he is the #3 top hitmen, to be precise. Then one day enigmatic Misako enters his life, and she assigns him a fatal job. That's when Hanada's nightmare begins. He bungles the hit and the victim survives. Now Hanada's own syndicate is hunting him down, his wife betrays him, and Killer No. 1 challenges him to a duel that will decide over life and death... More stylish than James Bond, BRANDED TO KILL made more waves than the Nouvelle Vague. Seijun Suzuki's 1967 black and white yakuza thriller BRANDED TO KILL about a hitman who himself becomes the prey inspired Jim Jarmusch's “Ghost Dog“ and was the visual template for “Dead Man“.
More stylish than James Bond, BRANDED TO KILL made more waves than the Nouvelle Vague.
Wild shootouts and surgical killings: Hanada leads an exciting life. He loves his wife and the scent of cooking rice. And he is the #3 top hitmen, to be precise.
Then one day enigmatic Misako enters his life, and she assigns him a fatal job. That's when Hanada's nightmare begins. He bungles the hit and the victim survives. Now Hanada's own syndicate is hunting him down, his wife betrays him, and Killer No. 1 challenges him to a duel that will decide over life and death...
More stylish than James Bond, BRANDED TO KILL made more waves than the Nouvelle Vague. Seijun Suzuki's 1967 black and white yakuza thriller BRANDED TO KILL about a hitman who himself becomes the prey inspired Jim Jarmusch's “Ghost Dog“ and was the visual template for “Dead Man“.