Seijun Suzuki
Japanese film director (1923-2017) · Japan · On the map · Directors · Died at 93
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.
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Milocrorze: A Love StoryFilm, Gazen2002
Blessing BellFilm, Old Man's Ghost2001
Pistol OperaFilm, Director1998
Sleepless TownFilm, Ye Xiaodan1994
Good MourningSeries1991
YumejiFilm, Director1990Medal with Purple RibbonAward
La Belle Fille Masquée PoitrineSeries, 1990Kami-sama
Tales of the BizarreSeries, 19901985
Capone Cries a LotFilm, Director1981Blue Ribbon Awards for Best DirectorAward
Kagero-zaFilm, 1981Director1977
A Tale of Sorrow and SadnessFilm, Director1973
Horror Theater UnbalanceSeries, Director1971
Lupin the 3rdSeries, Writer1966
Carmen from KawachiFilm, Director1965
Born Under Crossed StarsFilm, Director1963
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!Film, Director1961
The Man with a ShotgunFilm, Director1960
Everything Goes WrongFilm, Director1957
Eight Hours of TerrorFilm, Director1923Born24 May 1923People around Seijun
Yoshio Harada Seijun directed Zigeunerweisen and Kagero-za
Joe Shishido Seijun directed Gate of Flesh (1964)
Akira Kobayashi Seijun directed Kanto Wanderer (1963)
Hideaki Nitani Seijun directed Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Shinsuke Ashida Seijun directed Underworld Beauty (1958)
Kayo Matsuo Seijun directed Gate of Flesh (1964)
Chieko Matsubara Seijun directed Tokyo Drifter and Kanto Wanderer
Tamio Kawachi Also in Everything Goes Wrong and Teenage Yakuza
Kirin Kiki Seijun directed Zigeunerweisen and Pistol Opera
Nobuo Kaneko Also in Eight Hours of Terror and Tokyo Knights
Toru Abe Seijun directed Kanto Wanderer (1963)
Genjirō Arato Produced Zigeunerweisen, Kagero-za and Yumeji
Hideki Takahashi Seijun directed Fighting Elegy and Tattooed Life
Michiyo Ōkusu Seijun directed Zigeunerweisen and Kagero-za
Kenji Sawada Seijun directed Yumeji and Capone Cries a Lot
Akaji Maro Seijun directed Zigeunerweisen and Kagero-za
Asao Sano Also in The Man with a Shotgun (1961)
Eiji Gō Seijun directed Tokyo Drifter (1966)
Takeo Kimura Also in The Flower and the Angry Waves (1964)
Kōji Wada Also in Gate of Flesh and Carmen from Kawachi
Masako Izumi Seijun directed The Bastard (1963)
Mikijirō Hira Seijun directed Pistol Opera (2001)
Misako Watanabe Seijun directed Youth of the Beast (1963)
Tomio Aoki Also in Underworld Beauty (1958)
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Branded to Kill 1967
Tokyo Drifter 1966
Youth of the Beast 1963
Gate of Flesh 1964
Zigeunerweisen 1980
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
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Television 5
Media & music
Photos 1
Awards
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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).
