Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter were favorites during our first year of being Lost in Criterion because of Seijun Suzuki's ridiculous sense of style and clear disdain for being told what to do. Thankfully he (mostly) lacked oversight, so he did some pretty crazy things so long as he could reasonably argue that he stuck to the script. Youth of the Beast has some strikingly wonderful set-pieces, particularly the two gangs' hideouts.

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