Included as an extra on the Branded
to Kill Blu-ray release is Trapped
in Lust (1973) it’s described as ‘a
delirious roman porno re-imagining of Branded to Kill’. Directed by Atsushi
Yamotoya’s who also co-scripted the film along with Yozo Tanaka both of whom
are Seijun Suzuki’s regular collaborators. It’s basically the same story, but with more
sex and in colour. Again we get the hit man Hoshi and his sex mad wife - who he
is paid to kill! After the contract is completed he takes solace in the arms of
three naked women and lots of booze. But
he soon discovers his wife is still alive - that is until a giant hit man in a
Bogart trench coat called Saigo, who is accompanied by a life size female
ventriloquist doll called Mario; drown the woman in a bath!
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| Hitman Hoshi..... |
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| ....takes solace in the arms of three women. |
This was Yamotoya’s fourth and final film, one that was
“lost” for twenty years. It stars Moeko Ezawa as Mayuko and Genjiro Arato as ‘Hitman’
Hoshi.
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| A grown up puppet show! |
I am sure those of you who treat themselves to a viewing
of this movie will make up their own mind about its true meaning. You may see
the paranoia and schizophrenia of the people on the very edge of Japanese
society, you may see redemptive factors rather than simply more killings, more
naked ladies and lots more sex along a large dose of black humour which
punctuate this crazy action packed movie. Let me know?
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