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).
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 (Movies)
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
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Release Date:31/01/2015
Milocrorze: A Love Story
Character:Gazen
Release Date:18/02/2011
Dreaming Awake
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Release Date:18/10/2008
Matouqin Nocturne
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Release Date:21/07/2007
Boy
Character:Ryuun Naito
Release Date:22/04/2007
What's a Director?
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Release Date:04/11/2006
From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
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Release Date:26/07/2005
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
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Release Date:24/07/2004
Blessing Bell
Character:Old Man's Ghost
Release Date:08/12/2002
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
Character:Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
Release Date:10/01/2002
The Erotic Empire
Character:self
Release Date:01/01/2002
The Moon
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Release Date:08/07/2000
The Last Day
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Release Date:15/01/2000
Embalming
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Release Date:30/07/1999
Let's Get Happy
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Release Date:09/12/1998
Sleepless Town
Character:Ye Xiaodan
Release Date:27/06/1998
The Story of PuPu
Character:Old Man
Release Date:04/04/1998
Ki no ue no sogyo
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Release Date:29/03/1997
Yurika-chan
Character:Grandpa
Release Date:01/01/1997
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
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Release Date:25/05/1996
Sure Death 6
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Release Date:25/05/1996
Cold Fever
Character:Hirata's Grandfather
Release Date:10/02/1995
My Beloved Ultraseven
Character:Eiji Tsuburaya
Release Date:13/02/1993
Pachinko Graffiti
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Release Date:13/01/1992
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
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Release Date:13/05/1991
The Rain Women
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Release Date:01/12/1990
Virgin Road
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Release Date:21/07/1989
Shiro and Marilyn
Character:Vet
Release Date:16/07/1988
Double Bed
Character:Man in Bar
Release Date:05/08/1983
MOMENT
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Release Date:03/04/1981
Disciples of Hippocrates
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Release Date:21/11/1980
I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
Character:Himself
Release Date:06/04/1975
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