Branded to Kill

(1967)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 260 votes

Genres: Thriller, Crime, Action

Year: 1967

Runtime: 91 мин

Country: Japan

Director: Сэйдзюн Судзуки

Cast: Дзё Сисидо, 南原宏治, 玉川伊佐男, 真理アンヌ, 小川真理子, 南廣, 長弘, Ацуси Яматоя, 野村隆, 宮原徳平

Plot

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

The number-three-ranked hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, which puts him into conflict with a mysterious woman whose death wish inspires her to surround herself with dead butterflies and dead birds. Worse danger comes from his own treacherous wife and finally with the number-one-ranked hit-man, known only as a phantom to those who fear his unseen presence.