Kill! [Criterion Collection]

Director: Kihachi Okamoto

Overview

"Kihachi Okamoto's Kiru (aka Kill!) stands among the major Japanese samurai films of the 1960s as a satire that delivers equal parts bloody swordplay and jet-black comedy, and The Criterion Collection have finally given it the North American video release

Product Details

Release Date:	10/25/2005
UPC:	0037429209929
Original Release:	1968
Source:	CRITERION COLLECTION
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:54:00
Sales rank:	32,416

Special Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer; Original theatrical trailer and teaser; New and improved English subtitle translation; A new essay by film and culture critic Howard Hampton

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tatsuya Nakadai	Genta
Naoko Kubo	Tetsutar? Oikawa,Monnosuke Takei
Per-Axel Arosenius	Actor
Hideyo Amamoto	Actor
Yuriko Hoshi	Chino
Shigeru Koyama	Ayuzawa
Tadao Nakamaru	Shoda
Etsushi Takahashi	Hanijiro
T?no Eijir?	Moriuchi
Yoshio Tsuchiya	Matsuo
Nami Tamura	Actor
Masaru Sat?	Composer

Technical Credits

Kihachi Okamoto

Akira Murao

Tomoyuki Tanaka	Producer
Kihachi Okamoto	Screenwriter
Akira Murao	Screenwriter

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Kill!
1. Two Hungry Samurai... and a Chicken [7:05]
2. Tetsutaro Oikawa, Reformer [3:02]
3. Assassination Plot [7:15]
4. Old Man Moriuchi [2:15]
5. Hanjiro Tabata, Farmer [8:23]
6. Shimpo Temple [8:16]
7. Hideout at Mount Toride [3:58]
8. Plotting an Ambush [6:13]
9. Jurota Arao, Squad Leader [1:37]
10. Dead Men's Plans [8:45]
11. Horseplay with Shinroku [2:01]
12. The Ronin Brigade [5:23]
13. "Samurai Are No Good" [5:56]
14. Message to Edo [5:01]
15. Genta's Story [2:32]
16. Dogs and Cats [5:57]
17. Desperation [6:08]
18. "Giving Up on Being a Samurai?" [3:23]
19. Preparations for Battle [3:24]
20. Leaving the Fort [4:47]
21. Fire Tongs [5:20]
22. Festival Time [2:53]
23. Yagenta Hyogo, Samurai [1:31]
24. Color Bars [3:16]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Kill!
Play The Movie
Chapters
Trailer
Teaser
Subtitles
Subtitles: On
Subtitles: Off