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Youth of the Beast - Criterion Collection Director: Seijun Suzuki Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 92 minutes Studio: Criterion Collection Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2005-01-11 Buy from Amazon |
 "Another Seijun Master Piece"I must dissagree with Sean's analysis. While Branded to Kill is certainly a stylistic masterpiece. This film makes Tokyo Drifter seem like a game of Candyland. Ever tongue in cheek, Seijun once again takes a brilliant jab at the Japanese psyche, and wounds once again. With all the camp of a B movie, the cinematic brilliance of an Orson Welles in Hong Kong, Seijun takes on, once again, the crippled self-image of postwar Japan. Replete with a visceral display of corruption, and the seedier underbelly of power that has held sway through out Japan's last several centuries. |
