2015 Nippon Nights Film Screening 'Branded to Kill' by Seijun SuzukiNEW

Nippon Nights is a monthly series presenting different genres, styles and generations of Japanese Cinema to Bay Area audiences. Check out our upcoming screenings. For the screening in March, we present: BRANDED TO KILL by Seijun Suzuki

Date
Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 7:00PM

We invite Mr. Aaron Kerner (San Francisco State University Cinema Department Associate Professor) after the screening to discuss the world of Seijun Suzuki
Explore the jarring visual style, irreverent humor, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility by Seijun Suzuki, who is one of the masters of Japanese cult films since 1950s.
The story depicts that a hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, putting him into conflict with his treacherous wife, with a mysterious woman eager for death and with the phantom-like hit-man known only as Number One. Directed by Seijun Suzuki, 91min, 1967, Japan, Subtitled in English.

"Reputedly one of Seijun Suzuki's finest works and unquestionably very stylish in its 'Scope framings (Jim Jarmusch copied a few shots from it in his Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai)".