Directing
Seijun Suzuki
EN, JA, ES cinema · 98 credits
Born
24 May 1923
Died
13 February 2017 (aged 93)
Birthplace
Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Also known as Seitaro Suzuki · 鈴木清太郎 · Hachiro Guryu · 具流八郎 · 세이준 스즈키
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.
Known for
Filmography
Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki
as Self (archive footage)
少年
2007
Boy
as Ryuun Naito
Princess Raccoon
Director, Executive Producer
Blessing Bell
as Old Man's Ghost
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
as Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
Pistol Opera
Director
Sleepless Town
as Ye Xiaodan
The Story of PuPu
as Old Man
Yurika-chan
as Grandpa
Cold Fever
as Hirata's Grandfather
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
Supervising Art Director
My Beloved Ultraseven
as Eiji Tsuburaya
Marriage
Director
Yumeji
Director
Capone Cries a Lot
Director
Double Bed
as Man in Bar
Storm of Falling Petals: Banner of a Fireman in the Flames
Director, Screenplay
Kazoku no sentaku
Director
MOMENT
Actor
Kagero-za
Director
Zigeunerweisen
Director
The Fang in the Hole
Director
A Mummy’s Love
Director
Branded to Kill
Director, Screenplay
Fighting Elegy
Director
Tokyo Drifter
Director
Carmen from Kawachi
Director
Tattooed Life
Director
Gate of Flesh
Director
The Call of Blood
Director
Kanto Wanderer
Director
Youth of the Beast
Director
The Incorrigible
Director
Teenage Yakuza
Director
Tokyo Knights
Director
Living by Karate
Director
Fighting Delinquents
Director
Smashing the 0-Line
Director
Passport to Darkness
Director
Love Letter
Director
Age of Nudity
Director, Writer
Underworld Beauty
Director
Young Breasts
Director
Satan's Town
Director
Semyonov's Gold Ingots
Screenplay
Evil Reward
Assistant Director
Passion and Rifle Bullets
Assistant Director, Screenplay
Duel at Sundown
Assistant Director, Screenplay
The Black Current
Assistant Director
My Pistol Is Quick
Assistant Director