Seijun Suzuki
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.
Double Bed
as Man in BarKato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a...
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Sleepless Town
as Ye XiaodanKenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except...
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Sure Death 6
as uncreditedWhen an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter...
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Blessing Bell
as Old Man's GhostExistential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his...
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Shiro and Marilyn
as VetBased on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the...
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Discontinuous Bombing Incident
as uncreditedWhat is the clue that connects the police dormitory bombing case & Keihin canal murder case with...
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The Story of PuPu
as Old ManFu and Suzu are two pretty anarchist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a...
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What's a Director?
as uncreditedWorks commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
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The Wings of Hakenkreuz
as uncreditedWhen a man who as a student wanted to burn down his school meets a man years later, his new...
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Embalming
as uncreditedYoung female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed...
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Ki no ue no sogyo
as uncreditedA story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.
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Milocrorze: A Love Story
as GazenThree tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead...
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Cold Fever
as Hirata's GrandfatherA Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a...
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The Moon
as uncreditedAfter her grandmother's passing, Natsumi, a third-year high school student, moves to Tokyo to...
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Let's Get Happy
as uncreditedA comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The...
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MOMENT
as uncreditedPocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose...
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Matouqin Nocturne
as uncreditedA baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His...
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The Erotic Empire
as selfA short history of the Japanese 'Pink' movie, focusing on the output of the Nikkatsu studio.
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Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
as uncreditedA difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be...
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Yurika-chan
as GrandpaAn exciting 'psychic movie' starring Kanako Enomoto, adapted from the manga series by Yukio...
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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
as uncreditedA tragic love story set in a mountain village in the Showa era, waiting for a fiancé who died in...
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Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
as Self - Filmmaker & ScreenwriterFilm director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great...
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Tales of the Bizarre
as uncreditedInspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show...
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La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine
as Kami-samaThe eleventh entry in the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series. Yuko Murikami stops by a shrine to pray...
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