Criterion Collection Year 1967 Video Release 2011 12 06 Studio RLJ Entertainment Genre Action MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Black and White Runtime 82 Animated Live Action Full Synopsis When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki Tokyo Drifter 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 Joe Shishido, the chipmunk cheeked superstar from Gate of Flesh with a fetish for sniffing boiled rice who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Suzuki at his most extreme the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop art aesthetic. Director Seijun Suzuki Cast Seijun Suzuki; Jo Shishido; Koji Nanbara; Isao Tamagawa; Anne Mari; Mariko Ogawa; Hiroshi Minami; Iwae Arai