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FUNimation Entertainment, Ltd. | January 1, 2012 | DVD
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FUNimation Entertainment, Ltd. | January 1, 2012 | DVD
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Lions Gate Home Entertainment | January 1, 2012 | DVD
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Kino on Video | January 24, 2012 | DVD
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Criterion Collection | December 13, 2011 | Blu-Ray
In this cinematic masterpiece Seijan Suzuki transcends the B-movie genre. Fired after making it, he was unable to work for ten years. Branded to Kill follows the strange day-to-day existence of an expert hit-man who carries out his orders with steely determination and impassive cool. All hell breaks loose, however, when a butterfly alighting on his rifle scope results in a botched job, and a death sentence for the screw-up. Joe Shishido, with his collagen-enhanced cheekbones, makes a terrific antihero whose unusual quirks (Suzuki reasoned that a man obsessed with the scent of warm rice would signal to audiences that this guy was quintessentially Japanese) instantly endear him to newly-made fans.
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FUNimation Entertainment, Ltd. | January 1, 2012 | DVD
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FUNimation Entertainment, Ltd. | January 1, 2012 | Blu-Ray
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Genius Productions, Inc. | January 1, 2012 | DVD
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Criterion Collection | December 13, 2011 | DVD
To experience a film by Japanese B-movie visionary Seijun Suzuki is to experience Japanese cinema in all its frenzied, voluptuous excess. In 1966 the studio ordered Suzuki to tow the line with what was intended to be a routine potboiler about a recently retired Yakuza.The result was this thrilling fantasia in which the hero Tetsu tries to go straight but is thwarted by his formal rivals every step of the way. Like other ignored Japanese director's of his wartime generation, Suzuki took refuge from Japan's militarism in a doctrine of mutability. He had lived amid annihilation and it was necessary to view oneself objectively, even to the point where mutability appeared pathetic and humorous at the same time. It was even necessary to discover a certain masochistic pleasure in the abnormal experience that shook one's core, which is why this film, like many of his best, resembles a masochistic cartoon.
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Anchor Bay/Starz | January 17, 2012 | DVD
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Anchor Bay/Starz | January 17, 2012 | Blu-Ray
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | January 31, 2012 | Blu-Ray
This gripping World War II drama dealing with the exploits of a German submarine crew is the highest grossing film in the history of German cinema. The crew's fight for survival while on patrol in the North Atlantic is a remarkable study in human determination.
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