VIDEO - Branded To Kill Inspired Music Video "Le Titre"

After a long dry spell, we have this great Turkish music video called Le Titre.  The video borrows it's narrative and style, almost shot-by-shot at times, from Suzuki's film Branded to Kill.  Many people have tried tribute like this before, I'm looking at you Blue Scholars, but these guys actually succeeded in aping BTK's rich noir visuals exactly while still imposing their own filmmaking style.  This is a must watch for any fan of Suzuki.

ARTICLE - Underated Suzuki: Ten Lesser Known Works

The great folks over at Mubi.com posted an article listing some of Seijun Suzuki's lesser known films, ten in fact.  It's a pretty good, but predictable, list except for the welcome shout out to the criminally unseen Heat Haze Theater.  Check out the article here.

PICS - A VERY SUZUKI CHRISTMAS

I couldn't help but post this lovely little Christmas gem showing a very happy gentleman showing off his mint in the box Tokyo Drifter Blu-ray on Christmas morning. Will must have been a very good boy this year indeed.  Congrats!

VIDEO - BLUE SCHOLAR'S "SEIJUN SUZUKI" MUSIC VIDEO

The duo known as the Blue Scholars has released the music video for their rap single "Seijun Suzuki".  Check out the Tokyo Drifter bookends and the surreal image of a gangster eating fried chicken off the tip of a samurai sword.  Yep I typed that sentence.

NEWS - "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn digs Suzuki

As a part of the Criterion Collections ongoing Top Ten series, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn cites Tokyo Drifter as his number one favorite Critertion release.  Sitting at the bottom at number ten is Branded to Kill.  Nicolas has created a very tasty Suzuki sandwich with some lovely meaty choices in the middle.

Check out his entire Top 10 here

ARTICLE - EVERYTHING GOES WRONG Review

Over at TCM's fantastic Movie Morlocks page you'll find an indepth review of Seijun Suzuki HULU Plus exclusive film Everything Goes Wrong.  Author Kimberly Lindbergs gifts us a number of crisp screen captures and a great plot breakdown.  Like I mentioned, this is a Criterion Collection "online-only" release for HULU Plus subscribers only.  Lucky for us Kim details how you can see it for free by signing up for a temporary “Plus” account with Hulu.com.  So what excuse do you have now...zip...zilch...zero.  Check out the article here.

NEWS - Branded to Kill + Toyko Drifter Blurays from Criterion in December



Branded to Kill (Bluray)



Tokyo Drifter (Bluray)



Christmas has come early!  The Criterion Collection has just announced that both Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter are coming to Bluray on December 13.  Along with the eagerly awaited new HD transfers of the films, the discs will include new interviews and essay booklets.  Check out our online Amazon store to get your preorders in now, and stay tuned for any updates as they come down the pipeline.