Seijun Suzuki

Known for DirectingBorn 1923-05-24Died 2017-02-13Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

Seijun Suzuki born Seitaro Suzuki (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017) was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded his magnum opus, Branded to Kill (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991). His films remained widely unknown outside of Japan until a series of theatrical retrospectives beginning in the mid 1980s, home video releases of key films such as Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter in the late 1990s and tributes by such acclaimed filmmakers as Jim Jarmusch, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-wai and Quentin Tarantino signaled his international discovery. Suzuki has continued making films, albeit sporadically. In Japan, he is more commonly recognized as an actor for his numerous roles in Japanese films and television. He passed away on February 13th, 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Seijun Suzuki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

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Blood-Red Water in the Channel

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab

Victory Is Ours

Satan's Town

The Black Current

Love Letter

Marriage

I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!

Pure Emotions of the Sea

Let's Get Happy

Ki no ue no sogyo

Pachinko Graffiti

La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine

Cherry Blossoms in Spring

A Mummy’s Love

Lupin the 3rd

Tales of the Bizarre

Inn of the Floating Weeds

Sleepless Town

The Boy Who Came Back

The Guys Who Put Money on Me

Eight Hours of Terror

Passport to Darkness

Boy

Age of Nudity

Blessing Bell

Shiro and Marilyn

Branded to Kill

The Flower and the Angry Waves

Tattooed Life

The Incorrigible

The Fang in the Hole

Tokyo Drifter

Teenage Yakuza

Fighting Elegy

Disciples of Hippocrates

Tokyo Knights

Young Breasts

The Naked Woman and the Gun

Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers

Youth of the Beast

Milocrorze: A Love Story

The Rain Women

Zigeunerweisen

The Sleeping Beast Within

Kagero-za

Cold Fever