Seijun Suzuki

Born: 1923-05-24

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.


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Sleepless Town

as Ye Xiaodan
Released: 1998-06-27

Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except...

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The Story of PuPu

as Old Man
Released: 1998-04-04

Fu and Suzu are two pretty anarchist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a...

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Double Bed

as Man in Bar
Released: 1983-08-05

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a...

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Milocrorze: A Love Story

as Gazen
Released: 2011-02-18

Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead...

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Cold Fever

as Hirata's Grandfather
Released: 1995-02-10

A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a...

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Virgin Road

as uncredited
Released: 1989-07-21

Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai

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Sure Death 6

as uncredited
Released: 1996-05-25

When 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 Ghost
Released: 2002-12-08

Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his...

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Shiro and Marilyn

as Vet
Released: 1988-07-16

Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the...

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Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You

as uncredited
Released: 1996-05-25

A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be...

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Let's Get Happy

as uncredited
Released: 1998-12-09

A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The...

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MOMENT

as uncredited
Released: 1981-04-03

Pocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose...

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Embalming

as uncredited
Released: 1999-07-30

Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed...

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Oshimai no hi

as uncredited
Released: 2000-01-15

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What's a Director?

as uncredited
Released: 2006-11-04

Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association

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Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas

as Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
Released: 2002-01-10

Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great...

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Ki no ue no sogyo

as uncredited
Released: 1997-03-29

A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.

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Discontinuous Bombing Incident

as uncredited
Released: 1991-05-13

What is the clue that connects the police dormitory bombing case & Keihin canal murder case with...

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The Erotic Empire

as self
Released:

A short history of the Japanese 'Pink' movie, focusing on the output of the Nikkatsu studio.

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The Moon

as uncredited
Released: 2000-07-08

A humanity drama set in Asakusa. Natsumi, a third-year high school student, moved to Tokyo when...

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The Wings of Hakenkreuz

as uncredited
Released: 2004-07-24

When a man who as a student wanted to burn down his school meets a man years later, his new...

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Matouqin Nocturne

as uncredited
Released: 2007-07-21

A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His...

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Yurika-chan

as Grandpa
Released: 1997-01-01

An exciting 'psychic movie' starring Kanako Enomoto, adapted from the manga series by Yukio...

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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here

as uncredited
Released: 2015-01-31

A tragic love story set in a mountain village in the Showa era, waiting for a fiancé who died in...

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Tales of the Bizarre

as uncredited
First aired: 1990-04-19

Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show...

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Bishojo Kamen Poitrine

as Kami-sama
First aired: 1990-01-07

The eleventh entry in the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series. Yuko Murikami stops by a shrine to pray...

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