Known For
Directing
Born
May 24, 1923
Died
Feb 13, 2017
Place of Birth
Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Credits
103 titles
Seijun Suzuki
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, 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
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
Milocrorze: A Love Story
Gazen
Dreaming Awake
Matouqin Nocturne
Boy
Ryuun Naito
What's a Director?
From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
Princess Raccoon
Director
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
Blessing Bell
Old Man's Ghost
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
The Erotic Empire
self
Pistol Opera
Director
The Moon
The Last Day
Embalming
Let's Get Happy
Sleepless Town
Ye Xiaodan
The Story of PuPu
Old Man
Ki no ue no sogyo
Yurika-chan
Grandpa
Sure Death 6
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
Cold Fever
Hirata's Grandfather
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
Supervising Art Director
Good Mourning
Marriage
Director
My Beloved Ultraseven
Eiji Tsuburaya
Pachinko Graffiti
A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
Director
Yumeji
Director
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
The Rain Women
Tales of the Bizarre
La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine
Kami-sama
Virgin Road
Shiro and Marilyn
Vet
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
Director
Capone Cries a Lot
Director
Kazoku no sentaku
Director
Double Bed
Man in Bar
Storm of Falling Petals: Banner of a Fireman in the Flames
Director
Cherry Blossoms in Spring
Director
Kagero-za
Director
MOMENT
Daughter of Time
Idea
Disciples of Hippocrates
The Claws of the Divine Beast
Director
Zigeunerweisen
Director
The Fang in the Hole
Director