Hanada is the 'Number 3' killer in the Japanese underworld. Hired by a mysterious woman, the scheduled hit goes very wrong and Handa is launched into a deadly cat and mouse game with the sexually perverse rice sniffing 'Number 1' killer. Filled with bizarre imagery, eroticism and brutal violence in a world where everyone seems insane - it's not hard to see why BRANDED TO KILL has been heralded by many as a masterpiece of film noir and surreal cinema.