Seijun Suzuki’s delirious 1967 hit-man film has drawn comparisons with contemporaries Le Samourai and Point Blank and influenced directors such as John Woo, Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino among others. Shot in cool monochrome with beguiling visuals, Branded to Kill is an effortlessly cool crime film with a jazzy score that caused Suzuki to be fired by the studio’s executives but is now rightly recognised as his masterpiece. This duasl format edition also comes with other bonus features and an extra film - Trapped in Lust (1973) - A delirious roman porno re-imagining of Brand To Kill from Atsushi Yamatoya, one of Brand To Kill's screenwriters and Suzuki's regular collaborators.
