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FAREWELL TO SUZUKI SEIJUN, JARMUSCH AND TARANTINO’S IDOL FEFF 19 and CG Entertainment decided to pay tribute to the great Japanese director and will present the restored version of major cult film Branded to Kill as a world premiere in Udine! 22nd February 2017 For immediate release UDINE – With the passing of Suzuki Seijun we have lost one of the great international filmmakers, who will be sorely missed by the Far East Film Festival, that in previous months had prepared, on the occasion of its 19th edition (21st – 29th April), a dedication to the director in collaboration with CG Entertainment. More precisely, a special tribute to the Suzuki’s most famous title, Branded to Kill, which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary since its release and which Udine’s festival will screen in a wonderful version restored by Criterion (in collaboration with Nikkatsu) as a world premiere. FEFF 19, bidding farewell to Suzuki Seijun, will also present the brand new box set from CG Entertainment containing Branded to Kill in DVD and Blu-ray, plus the book Time and Place are Nonsense by Tom Vick (a guest at last year’s edition of the festival). A monographic DVD box set with 5 films (Youth of the Beast, Tokyo Drifter, Detective Bureau, The Woman Sharper, Fighting Elegy) will also be available for purchase. Branded to Kill, a film revered by Quentin Tarantino, who has on many occasions mentioned it as a source of inspiration, is without a doubt one of the biggest cult pictures by Nikkatsu Action. A yakuza movie loved also by Jim Jarmusch and widely regarded as an absolute masterpiece of the Absurd! Back in 2005, Udine’s FEFF organised a retrospective centred around Japanese film company Nikkatsu and hosted Joe Shishido, main actor in Branded to Kill. Here are the eloquent and ironic words of the Japanese star (from No Borders, No Limits: Nikkatsu Action Cinema, written by Mark Schilling for the FEFF): «That was a great movie - for something incomprehensible. A few Japanese understood it, like the members of the Waseda University Film Study Circle. It was popular with them, but no one came to see it. I mean no one.». Press Office / Far East Film Festival 19 Gianmatteo Pellizzari & Ippolita Nigris Cosattini 0432/299545 - 347/0950890 [email protected] - [email protected] www.cgentertainment.it .

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