February 16, 2004
Way better than Pootie Tang
Home Vision Entertainment, the company in charge of the Criterion Collection, recently released 3 more movies by Seijun Suzuki, director of Tokyo Drifter & Branded To Kill. Of the new ones, I've only watched Underworld Beauty so far but I think it's pretty amazing how Suzuki goes from making pretty straight-ahead gangster movies in the late 50s to insane thriller-parodies a decade later.