Seijun Suzuki
Directing
Born 1923-05-24
Died 2017-02-13
Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
103 credits
Medal with Purple Ribbon 1
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director 1
Awards
Won 1 Medal with Purple Ribbon Award
Medal with Purple Ribbon 1 won
- 1990 Medal with Purple Ribbon Won
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director 1 won
- 1981 Best Director Won Zigeunerweisen
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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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Filmography
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Directing
36 credits
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
Horror Theater Unbalance
Passport to Darkness
Tokyo Drifter
Gate of Flesh
Young Breasts
Branded to Kill
Story of a Prostitute
Blood-Red Water in the Channel
Kagero-za
Capone Cries a Lot
Zigeunerweisen
Youth of the Beast
Take Aim at the Police Van
Marriage
Princess Raccoon
Fighting Elegy
Pistol Opera
Tokyo Knights
Living by Karate
The Flower and the Angry Waves
Tattooed Life
Yumeji
Kanto Wanderer
A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
The Boy Who Came Back
Age of Nudity
Good Evening Dear Husband: A Duel
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
Born Under Crossed Stars
The Sleeping Beast Within
Eight Hours of Terror
Satan's Town
The Fang in the Hole
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
The Call of Blood
Acting
15 credits
Shiro and Marilyn
La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine
Double Bed
The Story of PuPu
Sleepless Town
Yurika-chan
Daughter of Time
I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki
Blessing Bell
Milocrorze: A Love Story
Boy
My Beloved Ultraseven
Cold Fever
Other credits
8 credits
Tales of the Bizarre
Good Mourning
Ki no ue no sogyo
Sure Death 6
The Black Current
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
Disciples of Hippocrates
Embalming
Writing
4 credits
Producing
1 credit
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