荒誕放蕩,黑色反斗的型格黑幫片,既是鈴木清順60年代的代表作,也成為他電影生涯遭封殺之烙印。最諷刺的是雖然鈴木清順因《殺之烙印》被禁,但此片的怪誕瘋狂及前衛破格,奠定他在日本以至國際影壇地位。一代性格型男宍户锭飾演他耍家的殺手,白飯的味道令他鍾情,甚至能挑起他的性慾。一次任務失手,令他搭上神秘女顧客,更落入惡名昭彰的殺手一號的追殺名單,身陷險境。故事還是其次,旗幟鮮明的導演風格才是焦點。受日活公司限制製作費大減,反叛的鈴木清順以黑白菲林拍攝,證明黑白的單調在他手上也可化為奪目的力量。

The film that reportedly got Suzuki Seijun fired from the Nikkatsu Corporation, Branded to Kill is arguably the director's magnum opus – and inarguably one of the most entertaining and bizarre Yakuza films ever made! Suzuki gleefully mocks every convention of the gangster genre, creating a surreal, absurdist film noir masterpiece that must be seen to be believed. Suzuki's regular on-screen stand-in Shishido Joe is Hanada Goro, the underworld's third-ranked hitman, who has an unhealthy obsession with sniffing boiling rice. While botching hits and dealing with suicidal femme fatales, Hanada becomes a target of Number One, the underworld's top killer. But not even Hanada is prepared for Number One's brilliant, twisted, and sublimely ridiculous methods of murder.