Country: Japan
Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Watching the film is almost heartbreaking to think that a genius as Seijun Suzuki spend his entire artistic life to create commercial low budget films and even more that after a masterpiece as 'Branded to kill' he banned from any studio for ten years unable to make even one movie for so long. If you think that so much praising is exaggeration for a film that indeed is not well balanced , it's often pretentious , it's ,in most of its length, chaotic and absurd, then you have to reconsider: yakuza and gangster films never were so beautiful visually, sensual, humorous, innovative, brutal and complex. Suzuki deconstructs an entire genre and then rejuvenate it with a way that inspired dozens of great cinematographers after him. There are countless great ideas in the film, almost in every plan you can see something new and interesting no matter if is about the plot and the scenario or about the form and direction. To make a long story short: 'Branded to kill' , with all its flaws, is the rare kind of movie that you have to show to cinema schools in order to make students understand what cinema is about
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