‘Youth of the Beast’ – Yakuza cinema out of control on Criterion Channel !Featured, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, gangsters, International Classics, SVOD, thriller 06/20/202306/20/2023 Sean Axmaker Seijun Suzuki’s delirious take on pulp gangster films blows the lid off the Yakuza genre with mad energy and stylistic excess.
‘Gate of Flesh’ – the mercenary world of Japan after World War II on Criterion Channel !Featured, based on a novel, Crime, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Classics, SVOD 05/25/202305/25/2023 Sean Axmaker Seijun Suzuki puts the candy colored art direction of an American Technicolor musical in the service of an erotically charged tale of desperation and doom in this underworld drama set in post-war Japan.
‘Branded to Kill’ – Assassins gone wild on Criterion Channel !Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, gangsters, International Classics, neo-noir, satire, SVOD, thriller 05/17/202305/16/2023 Sean Axmaker Seijun Suzuki directs this absolutely mad yakuza movie that turns downright surreal when rival assassins engage in a sadistic game of cat and mouse.
