Do you have what it takes to be No. 1? While watching ‘Branded To Kill’ (1967), did you have any idea what was going on? How far did you get into the movie before figuring out that we aren’t meant to understand what is happening? How did you feel when you reached that crucial point? It’s new wave meets absurdist subversion in this Yakuza production line film. What could have been a truly run-of-the-mill quick-turnaround gangster movie became something wildly more memorable in the hands of Seijun Suzuki, the now-celebrated Japanese director. Boiling rice, butterflies, and bullets all punctuate this beautifully shot and completely insane story about nerve-wracked hitmen.

Find out who is No. 1 in Episode 24!