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Seijun Suzuki

Seijun Suzuki

Director · Born 1923-05-24 · Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

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Biography

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,…

Directed

  1. Branded to Kill (1967) — Director
  2. Tokyo Drifter (1966) — Director
  3. Youth of the Beast (1963) — Director
  4. Gate of Flesh (1964) — Director
  5. Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon (1985) — Director
  6. Zigeunerweisen (1980) — Director
  7. Story of a Prostitute (1965) — Director
  8. Fighting Elegy (1966) — Director
  9. Yumeji (1991) — Director
  10. Kagero-za (1981) — Director
  11. Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! (1963) — Director
  12. Take Aim at the Police Van (1960) — Director
  13. Pistol Opera (2001) — Director
  14. Tattooed Life (1965) — Director
  15. Underworld Beauty (1958) — Director
  16. Princess Raccoon (2005) — Director
  17. The Man with a Shotgun (1961) — Director
  18. Everything Goes Wrong (1960) — Director
  19. A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1977) — Director
  20. Eight Hours of Terror (1957) — Director
  21. Carmen from Kawachi (1966) — Director
  22. The Sleeping Beast Within (1960) — Director
  23. Kanto Wanderer (1963) — Director
  24. Smashing the 0-Line (1960) — Director
  25. The Flower and the Angry Waves (1964) — Director
  26. Tokyo Knights (1961) — Director
  27. Capone Cries a Lot (1985) — Director
  28. Voice Without a Shadow (1958) — Director
  29. The Call of Blood (1964) — Director
  30. Born Under Crossed Stars (1965) — Director
  31. Teenage Yakuza (1962) — Director
  32. The Boy Who Came Back (1958) — Director
  33. The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass (1961) — Director
  34. The Incorrigible (1963) — Director
  35. Love Letter (1959) — Director
  36. Good Evening Dear Husband: A Duel (1968) — Director
  37. Age of Nudity (1959) — Director
  38. Fighting Delinquents (1960) — Director
  39. The Guys Who Put Money on Me (1962) — Director
  40. Passport to Darkness (1959) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Cold Fever (1995) — Hirata's Grandfather
  2. Sleepless Town (1998) — Ye Xiaodan
  3. Blessing Bell (2002) — Old Man's Ghost
  4. Embalming (1999)
  5. The Story of PuPu (1998) — Old Man
  6. Double Bed (1983) — Man in Bar
  7. Disciples of Hippocrates (1980)
  8. Tales of the Bizarre (1990)
  9. Milocrorze: A Love Story (2011) — Gazen
  10. Shiro and Marilyn (1988) — Vet
  11. Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas (2002) — Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
  12. The Rain Women (1990)
  13. La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine (1990) — Kami-sama
  14. MOMENT (1981)
  15. Ki no ue no sogyo (1997)
  16. I Can't Wait Until It's Dark! (1975) — Himself
  17. Boy (2007) — Ryuun Naito
  18. From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh' (2005)
  19. Let's Get Happy (1998)
  20. Pachinko Graffiti (1992)
  21. What's a Director? (2006)
  22. The Wings of Hakenkreuz (2004)
  23. Discontinuous Bombing Incident (1991)
  24. Yurika-chan (1997) — Grandpa
  25. Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You (1996)
  26. Dreaming Awake (2008)
  27. The Erotic Empire (2002) — self
  28. SOAR: I Wish You Were Here (2015)
  29. Sure Death 6 (1996)
  30. Virgin Road (1989)
  31. The Moon (2000)
  32. Matouqin Nocturne (2007)
  33. The Last Day (2000)
  34. My Beloved Ultraseven (1993) — Eiji Tsuburaya
  35. Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki — Self (archive footage)
  36. Good Mourning (1994)