
The number-three-ranked hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, which puts him into conflict with a mysterious woman whose death wish inspires her to surround herself with dead butterflies and dead birds. Worse danger comes from his own treacherous wife and finally with the number-one-ranked hit-man, known only as a phantom to those who fear his unseen presence.... (Full plot summary below)
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The number-three-ranked hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, which puts him into conflict with a mysterious woman whose death wish inspires her to surround herself with dead butterflies and dead birds. Worse danger comes from his own treacherous wife and finally with the number-one-ranked hit-man, known only as a phantom to those who fear his unseen presence.
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| Time OutTom Huddleston'Branded to Kill' is one of those films that feels so far ahead of its time, we may still not have caught up to it. The violence is raw, the sex even more so, and the monochrome photography is flawless. |
| The Movie SleuthMichelle KisnerDespite not following the rules and forgoing a traditional three-act structure, the film still manages to be engaging mostly thanks to the creative visuals and fantastic cinematography. |
| Irish TimesTara BradyCult classic? Try one of the greatest films ever made. |
| IdentityTheoryMatthew SorrentoThe images remain so strong that we wonder whether the overall films began as mental images, unearthed from an artist's psyche to help construct probing popular entertainment. |
| Kansas City StarEric MelinBecause its so free of the conventions of other crime thrillers, that in and of itself is thrilling. The disorienting camera angles and jumps in time are all part of the atmosphere. |
| Radio TimesDavid ParkinsonDirector Seijun Suzuki outdid himself with this astonishing blend of yakuza movie, film noir and nouvelle vague. |
| Total FilmKen McIntyreBranded To Kill thrums along to an irresistible hard-bop beat, with effortlessly stylish black andwhite cinematography and set-pieces straight from a pulp fiction fever dream. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinBranded to Kill is a drunken dream of a film; the kind, once slept on, you can't believe you ever really saw. |
| Observer (UK)Mark KermodeAn arresting cocktail of sex, violence and surrealism, shot in monochrome hues which accentuate the perversity of the entire twisted venture. |
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongSeijun Suzuki doesn't do establishing shots, and when he does, they don't establish s***. |