Seijun Suzuki
- Directing
- May 24, 1923 · Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
- February 13, 2017
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
- Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki · Self
- 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, Executive producer
- The Wings of Hakenkreuz
- Blessing Bell · Old Man's Ghost
- Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas · Self
- 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
- Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
- Sure Death 6
- 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, Writer
- 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 · Screenplay, 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
- A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness · Director
- I Can't Wait Until It's Dark! · Self
- Horror Theater Unbalance · Director
- A Mummy’s Love · Director
- Lupin the 3rd · Writer
- Good Evening Dear Husband: A Duel · Director
- Branded to Kill · Director, Screenplay
- Fighting Elegy · Director
- Tokyo Drifter · Director
- Carmen from Kawachi · Director
- Tattooed Life · Director
- Born Under Crossed Stars · Director
- Story of a Prostitute · Director
- The Call of Blood · Director
- Gate of Flesh · Director
- The Flower and the Angry Waves · Director
- Kanto Wanderer · Director
- The Incorrigible · Director
- Youth of the Beast · Director
- Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! · Director
- The Guys Who Put Money on Me · Director
- Teenage Yakuza · Director
- Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab · Director
- Blood-Red Water in the Channel · Director
- The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass · Director
- The Man with a Shotgun · Director
- Living by Karate · Director
- Tokyo Knights · Director
- Fighting Delinquents · Director