Tattooed Life (1965)

Dull, glossy melodrama from Seijun Suzuki, who appears to have had other things on his mind while directing this. He manages to rouse himself (and the film) from a stupor in the last ten minutes, which feature an exciting swordfight/rampage that Tarantino probably watched several times before filming the House of Blue Leaves sequence in Kill Bill, Vol. 1. But by then I was past giving a fuck. My mistrust of Suzuki's Technicolor films continues.

Grade: C-