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Dominican Rep. Branded to Kill
- Original title
- Koroshi no rakuin (Branded to Kill)aka
- AKA
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- Branded to Kill
- Year
- 1967
- Running time
- 98 min.
- Country
Japan- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Jô Shishido- Mariko Ogawa
Koji Nambara
Anne Mari- Hiroshi Minami
- Iwae Arai
Isao Tamagawa
Atsushi Yamatoya- Takashi Nomura
- Tokuhei Miyahara
- Yû Izumi
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- Music
- Cinematography
Kazue Nagatsuka (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Action. Film noir. Drama | Yakuza & Triad
- Synopsis
- The film's story centers on Hanada, a.k.a. "No. 3 Killer," the third-best hit man in Japanese organized crime. Near the top of his game, his fortunes change when he encounters Misako, a mysterious, death-obsessed woman who brings him a particularly difficult mission. In a famous moment indicative of the film's eccentric sensibility, a butterfly lands on his gun's sight at the exact moment he pulls the trigger, causing him to miss the shot. This failure means that the killer becomes the target, and must run for his life from his former employers, and the mysterious "No. 1 Killer." While the film does contain some spectacular action sequences, the story is played less as a suspense thriller than as a surrealistic, psychosexual nightmare, filled with grotesque imagery and strange touches, from Hanada's fetish for the smell of boiling rice, to Misako's use of a dead bird's corpse as a rear-view mirror decoration.
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