Seijun Suzuki
Known for: Directing
Born: May 24, 1923
Died: February 13, 2017
Place of birth: Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
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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Filmography
98 movies · 5 TV shows, newest first
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Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki
2026
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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
2015
6.4
Milocrorze: A Love Story
2011NR
Dreaming Awake
2008
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Matouqin Nocturne
20077.0
Boy
2007
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What's a Director?
20066.0
From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
2005
5.8
Princess Raccoon
2005
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The Wings of Hakenkreuz
2004
6.9
Blessing Bell
2002
6.0
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
2002NR
The Erotic Empire
2002
6.1
Pistol Opera
2001
NR
The Moon
2000
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The Last Day
2000
4.7
Embalming
1999
8.0
Let's Get Happy
1998
7.4
Sleepless Town
1998
5.0
The Story of PuPu
1998
8.0
Ki no ue no sogyo
1997
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Yurika-chan
1997
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Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
1996
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Sure Death 6
1996
6.4
Cold Fever
1995
6.6
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
1995
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Good Mourning
1994
9.0
Marriage
1993
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My Beloved Ultraseven
1993
8.0
Pachinko Graffiti
19924.0
A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
1992
6.4
Yumeji
1991
NR
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
1991
6.5
The Rain Women
1990
7.8
Tales of the Bizarre
1990
8.0
La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine
1990
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Virgin Road
1989
7.0
Shiro and Marilyn
1988
6.1
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
1985
6.0
Capone Cries a Lot
1985
NR
Kazoku no sentaku
1983
5.1
Double Bed
1983
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Storm of Falling Petals: Banner of a Fireman in the Flames
1983
8.0
Cherry Blossoms in Spring
1983
6.6
Kagero-za
1981
10.0
MOMENT
1981
NR
Daughter of Time
1980
6.8
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
6.0
The Claws of the Divine Beast
1980
6.5
Zigeunerweisen
1980
7.0
The Fang in the Hole
1979
5.6
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
19779.0
I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
1975
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Horror Theater Unbalance
1973
8.0
A Mummy’s Love
1973
8.0
Lupin the 3rd
1971
4.0
Good Evening Dear Husband: A Duel
1968
7.2
Branded to Kill
1967
7.0
Fighting Elegy
1966
7.1
Tokyo Drifter
1966
6.2
Carmen from Kawachi
1966
7.2
Tattooed Life
1965
6.6
Born Under Crossed Stars
1965
6.7
Story of a Prostitute
1965
5.8
The Call of Blood
1964
6.6
Gate of Flesh
1964
7.2
The Flower and the Angry Waves
1964
6.6
Kanto Wanderer
1963
7.2
The Incorrigible
1963
7.0
Youth of the Beast
1963
6.5
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963
7.5
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
1962
6.9
Teenage Yakuza
1962
10.0
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
1961
10.0
Blood-Red Water in the Channel
1961
6.6
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
1961
6.5
The Man with a Shotgun
1961
6.5
Living by Karate
1961
7.0
Tokyo Knights
1961
6.5
Fighting Delinquents
1960
6.7
Everything Goes Wrong
1960
6.3
Smashing the 0-Line
1960
6.8
The Sleeping Beast Within
1960
6.2
Take Aim at the Police Van
1960
7.3
Age of Nudity
1959
7.5
Passport to Darkness
1959
9.0
Love Letter
1959
6.2
Voice Without a Shadow
1958
7.0
Young Breasts
1958
7.6
The Boy Who Came Back
1958
5.9
Underworld Beauty
1958
7.0
The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957
7.5
Eight Hours of Terror
1957
8.0
Inn of the Floating Weeds
1957
10.0
Satan's Town
1956
9.0
Pure Emotions of the Sea
1956
NR
Semyonov's Gold Ingots
1956
10.0
Harbour Toast: Victory Is in Our Grasp
1956
NR
Evil Reward
1956
NR
Passion and Rifle Bullets
1955
NR
Duel at Sundown
1955
NR
My Pistol Is Quick
1954
10.0
The Black Current
1954