Seijun Suzuki
Directing
Born May 24, 1923 in 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.
Filmography
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
Milocrorze: A Love Story
Gazen
Matouqin Nocturne
What's a Director?
Princess Raccoon
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
Blessing Bell
Old Man's Ghost
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
Pistol Opera
The Moon
The Last Day
Embalming
Let's Get Happy
Sleepless Town
Ye Xiaodan
The Story of PuPu
Old Man
Ki no ue no sogyo
Yurika-chan
Grandpa
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
Sure Death 6
Cold Fever
Hirata's Grandfather
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
Good Mourning
Marriage
My Beloved Ultraseven
Eiji Tsuburaya
Pachinko Graffiti
Yumeji
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
The Rain Women
Tales of the Bizarre
La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine
Kami-sama
Virgin Road
Shiro and Marilyn
Vet
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
Capone Cries a Lot
Kazoku no sentaku
Double Bed
Man in Bar
Storm of Falling Petals: Banner of a Fireman in the Flames
Cherry Blossoms in Spring
Kagero-za
MOMENT
Daughter of Time
Disciples of Hippocrates
The Claws of the Divine Beast
Zigeunerweisen
The Fang in the Hole
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
Horror Theater Unbalance
A Mummy’s Love
Lupin the 3rd
Good Evening Dear Husband: A Duel
Branded to Kill
Fighting Elegy
Tokyo Drifter
Carmen from Kawachi
Tattooed Life
Born Under Crossed Stars
Story of a Prostitute
The Call of Blood
Gate of Flesh
The Flower and the Angry Waves
Kanto Wanderer
The Incorrigible
Youth of the Beast
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
Teenage Yakuza
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
Blood-Red Water in the Channel
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
The Man with a Shotgun
Living by Karate
Tokyo Knights
Fighting Delinquents
Everything Goes Wrong
Smashing the 0-Line
The Sleeping Beast Within
Take Aim at the Police Van
Age of Nudity
Passport to Darkness
Love Letter
Voice Without a Shadow
Young Breasts
The Boy Who Came Back
Underworld Beauty
The Naked Woman and the Gun
Eight Hours of Terror
Inn of the Floating Weeds
Satan's Town
Pure Emotions of the Sea
Semyonov's Gold Ingots
Victory Is Ours
Evil Reward
Passion and Rifle Bullets
Duel at Sundown
My Pistol Is Quick
The Black Current