# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/seijun-suzuki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:50:37.391Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/seijun-suzuki"
name: "Seijun Suzuki"
slug: "seijun-suzuki"
description: "Seijun Suzuki , born Seitaro Suzuki , was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their florid visual style, absurd humour, and a playful rejection of traditional film grammar. 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 as 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)."
tagline: "Japanese film director (1923–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Seijun_Suzuki.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1923-05-24"
deathDate: "2017-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.9
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.80618266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0840671/"
    handle:    "nm0840671"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump