Editing Branded to Kill (section)

==Home video==
''Branded to Kill'' was initially made available in Japan by Nikkatsu in [[VHS]] format, first on February 10, 1987,<ref name="amazon jp1">{{cite web
| title = 殺しの烙印 <nowiki>[1987 VHS]</nowiki>
| publisher = [[amazon.com|amazon.co.jp]]
| url = https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005FCAW
| language = ja
| access-date = 2007-06-05
| archive-date = 2007-09-29
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929165716/http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005FCAW
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}}</ref> then a second version on June 10, 1994.<ref name="amazon jp2">{{cite web
| title = 殺しの烙印 <nowiki>[1994 VHS]</nowiki>
| publisher = amazon.co.jp
| url = https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005FC7X
| language = ja
| access-date = 2007-06-05
| archive-date = 2007-09-29
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929121642/http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005FC7X
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}}</ref> Both versions were censored for nudity with a black bar obscuring half of the frame during the relevant scenes. The first uncensored release since the film's theatrical debut was an October 26, 2001, [[DVD-video|DVD]] from Nikkatsu. It included an interview with [[Seijun Suzuki]], two with [[Joe Shishido]], an [[Annu Mari]] photo gallery and the original [[Trailer (promotion)|film trailers]] for it and several other Suzuki films. The release was one of three linked to the ''Style to Kill'' theatrical [[retrospective]].<ref name="amazon jp3">{{cite web
| title = 殺しの烙印 <nowiki>[DVD]</nowiki>
| date = 26 October 2001
| publisher = amazon.co.jp
| url = https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005Q7NK
| language = ja
| access-date = 2009-06-22
| archive-date = 2007-09-29
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929123614/http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005Q7NK
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}}</ref><ref name="Style DVD">The three films in the ''Style to Kill'' DVD series released on October 26, 2001, are ''Branded to Kill'', ''[[Tokyo Drifter]]'' and ''[[Youth of the Beast]]''.<br />{{cite web
| title = Style to Kill
| publisher = [[Nikkatsu]]
| url = http://www.nikkatsu.com/dig/DVDLINEUPS/dvd_line_style.html
| language = ja
| access-date = 2009-06-22
| archive-date = 2009-08-14
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090814125610/http://www.nikkatsu.com/dig/DVDLINEUPS/dvd_line_style.html
| url-status = live
}}</ref> In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Suzuki's directorial debut, the film was included in the first of two six-film DVD box sets which was released October 1, 2006. All six titles included [[audio commentary]] tracks featuring Suzuki with various collaborators, those being Annu Mari and [[assistant director]] Masami Kuzū for ''Branded to Kill''.<ref>{{cite web|title=鈴木清順監督自選ＤＶＤ−ＢＯＸ壱 (DVD) |publisher=Nikkatsu |url=http://www.nikkatsu.com/package/detail.html?pid=1203 |language=ja |access-date=2009-06-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212140143/http://www.nikkatsu.com/package/detail.html?pid=1203 |archive-date=February 12, 2008 }}</ref>

The first North American copy surfaced in the early 1990s at [[Kim's Video and Music|Kim's Video]] in New York in a video series titled ''Dark of the Sun'' devoted to obscure [[Asian cinema]], assembled by John Zorn,<ref name="Film Comment">{{cite web
| last = Chute
| first = David
| title = Branded to Thrill
| publisher = Cinefiles
| url = http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cine_doc_detail.pl/cine_img/?15726%3F15726%3F0
| page = 3
| access-date = 2007-04-06
| quote = Two of Suzuki's films, ''Branded to Kill'' and ''[[Youth of the Beast|Wild Youth]]'' (aka ''Youth of the Beast'') are available in a video series devoted to Japanese cinematic exotica, 'Dark of the Sun,' assembled by musician John Zorn for Kim's Video in New York
| archive-date = 2023-11-20
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231120161627/https://research-it.berkeley.edu/news/retiring-museum-informatics-and-interactive-university-projects
| url-status = live
}}</ref> albeit without English [[Subtitle (captioning)|subtitles]].<ref name="Guts">{{cite web
| last = Price
| first = Ed
| title = Guts of a Virgin
| publisher = WNUR-FM Jazz Web
|date=August 1993
| url = http://www.wnur.org/Jazz/performance/zornfest/zorn-and-film.html#ShojoNoHarawata
| work = John Zorn and film
| access-date = 2007-04-06
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070725063919/http://www.wnur.org/Jazz/performance/zornfest/zorn-and-film.html
| archive-date=2007-07-25}}</ref> [[The Criterion Collection]] released the film in the United States and Canada on [[laserdisc]] in 1998,<ref name="DVD Laser">{{cite web
| last = Pratt
| first = Doug
| title = Branded to Kill
| publisher = DVDLaser.com
|date=June 1998
| url = http://www.dvdlaser.com/search/detail.cfm?ID=23573
| access-date = 2007-04-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194944/http://www.dvdlaser.com/search/detail.cfm?ID=23573 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-09-27}}</ref> followed by a DVD on February 23, 1999, both containing a 15-minute interview with Suzuki, poster gallery of Shishido films and liner notes by Zorn.<ref name="Savant">{{cite web
| last = Erickson
| first = Glenn
| author-link = Glenn Erickson
| title = Branded to Kill
| publisher = [[DVD Talk]]
| date = July 2002
| url = http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=4179&___rd=1
| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130122054538/http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=4179&___rd=1
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = January 22, 2013
| access-date = 2007-04-05
}}</ref> Home Vision Cinema release a VHS version on June 16, 2000.<ref name="amazon com">{{cite book
| title = Branded To Kill
| isbn = 0780020502
}}</ref> Both companies conjunctively released ''Tokyo Drifter'' in all three formats in addition to a VHS collection packaging the two films together.<ref name="Archive">{{cite web
| title = The Seijun Suzuki Prepack
| publisher = Internet Archive
|date=April 2002
| url = http://homevision.com/film.php?id=SUZ010
 | access-date = 2007-04-05
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020401060150/http://homevision.com/film.php?id=SUZ010 |archive-date = 2002-04-01}}</ref> In the United Kingdom, Second Sight Films released a DVD on February 25, 2002, and a VHS on March 11, 2002.<ref name="DVD Times">{{cite web
| last = Foster
| first = Dave
| title = Branded to Kill
| publisher = DVD Times
| date = February 2002
| url = http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=3604
| access-date = 2007-04-05
| archive-date = 2005-04-27
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050427071512/http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=3604
| url-status = live
}}</ref><ref name="amazon uk">{{cite web
| title = Branded To Kill
| publisher = amazon.co.uk
| url = https://www.amazon.co.uk/Branded-Kill-Jo-Shishido/dp/B00005UQVK
| access-date = 2007-06-05
| archive-date = 2007-07-05
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070705010042/http://www.amazon.co.uk/Branded-Kill-Jo-Shishido/dp/B00005UQVK
| url-status = live
}}</ref> Yume Pictures released a new DVD on February 26, 2007, as a part of their Suzuki collection, featuring a 36-minute interview with the director, trailers and liner notes by Tony Rayns.<ref name="DVD Times 2">{{cite web
| last = Gilvear
| first = Kevin
| title = Branded to Kill
| publisher = DVD Times
| date = April 2007
| url = http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=64730
| access-date = 2007-05-16
| archive-date = 2007-05-01
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070501034330/http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=64730
| url-status = live
}}</ref> [[Madman Entertainment]]'s [[Eastern Eye]] label released the film on DVD in Australia and New Zealand on May 2, 2007. It also contained the original trailer, a photo gallery and liner notes.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Branded To Kill
| publisher = [[Madman Entertainment]]
| url = http://www.madman.com.au/actions/catalogue.do?method=view&releaseId=8036
| access-date = 2009-06-26
| archive-date = 2008-08-12
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080812014255/http://www.madman.com.au/actions/catalogue.do?method=view&releaseId=8036
| url-status = live
}}</ref>

Criterion released ''Branded to Kill'' on [[Blu-ray Disc|Blu-ray]] on December 13, 2011; this release includes a 1997 interview with Suzuki and interviews conducted specifically for the Blu-ray featuring Suzuki, Kuzū and Shishido.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/release/branded-to-kill-criterion-collection-blu-ray-e272365 |work=[[AllRovi]] |title=Branded to Kill [Criterion Collection][Blu-Ray] |access-date=December 23, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113112026/http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/release/branded-to-kill-criterion-collection-blu-ray-e272365 |archive-date=January 13, 2012 }}</ref> [[Arrow Video]] released the film in the UK in a Blu-ray/DVD set on August 18, 2014; it includes an interview with Suzuki, an interview with Shishido conducted by writer Koshi Ueno, and ''Trapped in Lust''.<ref name="arrow">{{cite web
| title = Branded to Kill [DVD & Blu-ray] [1967]
| publisher = amazon.co.uk
| url = https://www.amazon.co.uk/Branded-Kill-DVD-Blu-ray-Shishido/dp/B00KHQD6WG
| access-date = 2021-06-21
| archive-date = 2023-08-04
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230804203359/https://www.amazon.co.uk/Branded-Kill-DVD-Blu-ray-Shishido/dp/B00KHQD6WG
| url-status = live
}}</ref>