TOKYO DRIFTER BRANDED TO KILL GRADE: B+ (Tokyo Drifter) GRADE: A (Branded to Kill) Tokyo Drifter Here in America, we tend to look at Japanese film through a keyhole. Mostly, we venerate Akira Kurosawa, who catalyzed the feedback loop that changed the way Westerners thought of the western. Consider, after all, that Kurosawa adapted Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest into Yojimbo, starring Toshiro ...