Branded to Kill (Criterion Collection)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

the plot is resolved in the final scene

up-tempo sides on one CD album

and soaring vocal passages by Mahadevan

albeit in German translations

The debut recording by a 70-something Delta bluesman dubbed The Mississippi Marvel

in his works

In the first-ever staging of this menacing drama at the Globe Theatre

iridescent invention and awe-inspiring ambition

Making his feature debut

the 'Lipinski' Strad arrives in the hands of Frank Almond

and C Major

Ashes to Ashes)