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.
58 directing credits · 36 acting credits
Directing · 58
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
1985
Story of a Prostitute
1965
Horror Theater Unbalance
1973
Branded to Kill
1967
Zigeunerweisen
1980
Gate of Flesh
1964
Tokyo Drifter
1966
Take Aim at the Police Van
1960
Fighting Elegy
1966
Kagero-za
1981
Pistol Opera
2001
Youth of the Beast
1963
Tattooed Life
1965
Capone Cries a Lot
1985
Princess Raccoon
2005
Yumeji
1991
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
1977
Kanto Wanderer
1963
The Naked Woman and the Gun
1957
Underworld Beauty
1958
Smashing the 0-Line
1960
Voice Without a Shadow
1958
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
1963
The Man with a Shotgun
1961
Carmen from Kawachi
1966
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
1962
The Sleeping Beast Within
1960
Everything Goes Wrong
1960
The Flower and the Angry Waves
1964
The Incorrigible
1963
The Fang in the Hole
1979
Fighting Delinquents
1960
Inn of the Floating Weeds
1957
Eight Hours of Terror
1957
Teenage Yakuza
1962
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
1961
Kazoku no sentaku
1983
Age of Nudity
1959
The Call of Blood
1964
A Mummy’s Love
1973
The Claws of the Divine Beast
1980
Born Under Crossed Stars
1965
Passport to Darkness
1959
Victory Is Ours
1956
The Boy Who Came Back
1958
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
1961
Cherry Blossoms in Spring
1983
Tokyo Knights
1961
Living by Karate
1961
Love Letter
1959
Pure Emotions of the Sea
1956
Satan's Town
1956
Young Breasts
1958
Storm of Falling Petals: Banner of a Fireman in the Flames
1983
Marriage
1993
Blood-Red Water in the Channel
1961
Good Evening Dear Husband: A Duel
1968
A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
1992
Acting · 36
Tales of the Bizarre
1990
La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine
1990
Good Mourning
1994
Double Bed
1983
Sleepless Town
1998
Blessing Bell
2002
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
Dreaming Awake
2008
The Story of PuPu
1998
Milocrorze: A Love Story
2011
Shiro and Marilyn
1988
Embalming
1999
Let's Get Happy
1998
The Moon
2000
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
1991
The Last Day
2000
What's a Director?
2006
Virgin Road
1989
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
1996
The Erotic Empire
2002
Cold Fever
1995
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
2004
Sure Death 6
1996
The Rain Women
1990
Matouqin Nocturne
2007
MOMENT
1981
Ki no ue no sogyo
1997
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
2015
My Beloved Ultraseven
1993
Yurika-chan
1997
Pachinko Graffiti
1992
Boy
2007
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
2002
I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
1975
From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
2005
Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki
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