If you loved Youth of the Beast, try Branded to Kill
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Seijun Suzuki, and they sit in Action / Crime / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Youth of the Beast, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Branded to Kill is
Tokyo. Rain slicked streets. A stray cat's meow. Lowest-ranked contract killer Goro Hanada bungles a routine hit, earning the ire of the criminal underworld. Now he and his wife must outwit a mysterious, sharply-dressed assassin. Suzuki's absurd, hyper-kinetic noir plays like a fever dream.

