Branded to Kill (#38) Childhood Trauma self-regulated Japanese film industry and

self-regulated Japanese film industry and pave the way for such films as Yasuzo Masumura's Moju [Blind Beast] and Nagisa Oshima's Ai no corrida / In the Realm of the Senses

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Branded to Kill (#38) Childhood Trauma self-regulated Japanese film industry andWhen Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired. Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin with a fetish for sniffing steamed rice (the chipmunk cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Suzuki at his most extremethe flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop