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.
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Fotos
Filme (98)
Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki
2026 · Self (archive footage)
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
2015
Milocrorze: A Love Story
2011 · Gazen
Dreaming Awake
2008
Matouqin Nocturne
2007
Boy
2007 · Ryuun Naito
What's a Director?
2006
From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
2005
Princess Raccoon
2005 · Director, Executive Producer
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
2004
Blessing Bell
2002 · Old Man's Ghost
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
2002 · Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
The Erotic Empire
2002 · self
Pistol Opera
2001 · Director
The Moon
2000
The Last Day
2000
Embalming
1999
Let's Get Happy
1998
Sleepless Town
1998 · Ye Xiaodan
The Story of PuPu
1998 · Old Man
Ki no ue no sogyo
1997
Yurika-chan
1997 · Grandpa
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
1996
Sure Death 6
1996
Cold Fever
1995 · Hirata's Grandfather
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
1995 · Supervising Art Director
Marriage
1993 · Director
My Beloved Ultraseven
1993 · Eiji Tsuburaya
Pachinko Graffiti
1992
A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
1992 · Director, Writer
Yumeji
1991 · Director
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
1991
The Rain Women
1990
Virgin Road
1989
Shiro and Marilyn
1988 · Vet
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
1985 · Director
Capone Cries a Lot
1985 · Director
Kazoku no sentaku
1983 · Director
Double Bed
1983 · Man in Bar
Storm of Falling Petals: Banner of a Fireman in the Flames
1983 · Screenplay, Director
Cherry Blossoms in Spring
1983 · Director
Kagero-za
1981 · Director
MOMENT
1981
Daughter of Time
1980 · Idea
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
The Claws of the Divine Beast
1980 · Director
Zigeunerweisen
1980 · Director
The Fang in the Hole
1979 · Director
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
1977 · Director
I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
1975 · Himself
A Mummy’s Love
1973 · Director
Good Evening Dear Husband: A Duel
1968 · Director
Branded to Kill
1967 · Director, Screenplay
Fighting Elegy
1966 · Director
Tokyo Drifter
1966 · Director
Carmen from Kawachi
1966 · Director
Tattooed Life
1965 · Director
Born Under Crossed Stars
1965 · Director
Story of a Prostitute
1965 · Director
The Call of Blood
1964 · Director
Gate of Flesh
1964 · Director
The Flower and the Angry Waves
1964 · Director
Kanto Wanderer
1963 · Director
The Incorrigible
1963 · Director
Youth of the Beast
1963 · Director
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963 · Director
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
1962 · Director
Teenage Yakuza
1962 · Director
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
1961 · Director
Blood-Red Water in the Channel
1961 · Director
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
1961 · Director
The Man with a Shotgun
1961 · Director
Living by Karate
1961 · Director
Tokyo Knights
1961 · Director
Fighting Delinquents
1960 · Director
Everything Goes Wrong
1960 · Director
Smashing the 0-Line
1960 · Director
The Sleeping Beast Within
1960 · Director
Take Aim at the Police Van
1960 · Director
Age of Nudity
1959 · Director, Writer
Passport to Darkness
1959 · Director
Love Letter
1959 · Director
Voice Without a Shadow
1958 · Director
Young Breasts
1958 · Director
The Boy Who Came Back
1958 · Director
Underworld Beauty
1958 · Director
The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957 · Director
Eight Hours of Terror
1957 · Director
Inn of the Floating Weeds
1957 · Director
Satan's Town
1956 · Director
Pure Emotions of the Sea
1956 · Director
Semyonov's Gold Ingots
1956 · Screenplay
Harbour Toast: Victory Is in Our Grasp
1956 · Director
Evil Reward
1956 · Assistant Director
Passion and Rifle Bullets
1955 · Screenplay, Assistant Director
Duel at Sundown
1955 · Screenplay, Assistant Director
My Pistol Is Quick
1954 · Assistant Director
The Black Current
1954 · Assistant Director
