Fans of Japanese director Seijun Suzuki's best-known film, Branded to Kill, might be interested in this stylised surrealist take on the same basic theme (killers in a mysterious agency try to move up a numbered list of top killers by killing each other).

Pistol Opera is as gorgeous as it is mostly incomprehensible, mixing English nursery rhymes and dialogue and kabuki-style stage performances with lots of bloodless killing (a gun turns red at one point, but people tend not to).

Where Branded to Kill, made in 1967, was a wild, weird take on film noir - so weird it got him fired from the studio - this one is as colourful as that was mono, and the male killers have become kimonoed females.

If Tarantino nodded off in Tokyo and could put his dreams on DVD, one might be a lot like this. Suzuki, now 83, has pulled off a typically eccentric DVD double with this and his most recent musical, Princess Raccoon, starring Zhang Ziyi and also recently released for home viewing.