Seijun Suzuki
Date of birth: 1923-05-24
Place of birth: Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Known for: Directing
Also known as: Seitaro Suzuki, 鈴木清太郎, Hachiro Guryu, 具流八郎, 스즈키 세이준, Сэйдзюн Судзуки, 세이준 스즈키
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.
Movie Credits
What's a Director?
2006-11-04
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
2004-07-24
When a man who as a student wanted to burn down his school meets a man years later, his new friend f
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
1991-05-13
What is the clue that connects the police dormitory bombing case & Keihin canal murder case with the
Cold Fever
1995-02-10
A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a rem
Yurika-chan
1997-01-01
An exciting 'psychic movie' starring Kanako Enomoto, adapted from the manga series by Yukio Tamai. P
Sleepless Town
1998-06-27
Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except chi
Milocrorze: A Love Story
2011-02-18
Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead Ovrene
Double Bed
1983-08-05
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend
MOMENT
1981-04-03
Pocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose predictions al
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
1996-05-25
A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born
Embalming
1999-07-30
Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suici
Ki no ue no sogyo
1997-03-29
A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.
Blessing Bell
2002-12-08
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influenc
Dreaming Awake
2008-10-18
Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his st
The Erotic Empire
2002-01-01
A short documentary primarily focused on Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series.
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
2015-01-31
A tragic love story set in a mountain village in the Showa era, waiting for a fiancé who died in the
The Story of PuPu
1998-04-04
Fu and Suzu are two hedonist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a journey to visi
Sure Death 6
1996-05-25
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects
Virgin Road
1989-07-21
Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai
I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
1975-04-06
Three cinephile university students have a go at making their own Super-8 film.
Shiro and Marilyn
1988-07-16
Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
2002-01-10
Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator
Boy
2007-04-22
Jun, a 16-year-old teen, refuses to stand while the national anthem is being played at his graduatio
The Moon
2000-07-08
After her grandmother's passing, Natsumi, a third-year high school student, moves to Tokyo to live w
From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
2005-07-26
Made for in 2005, this video interview features director Seijun Suzuki and production designer Takeo
Matouqin Nocturne
2007-07-21
A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather
Let's Get Happy
1998-12-09
A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day
The Last Day
2000-01-15
The Rain Women
1990-12-01
Rain in Tokyo area. Two girls holed up in their tiny apartment. They go out, steal cabbages, hit a s
Pachinko Graffiti
1992-01-13
With a single appointment letter, Tokyo University graduate Kohei's bright future and relationship w
My Beloved Ultraseven
1993-02-13
Ichikawa Shinichi, who actually participated as a scriptwriter in the tokusatsu series Ultra Seven,
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980-11-21
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, e