Seijun Suzuki

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1923-05-24

Deathday 2017-02-13 (93 years old)

Place of Birth Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

Also Known As Seitaro Suzuki, 鈴木清太郎, Hachiro Guryu, 具流八郎, 스즈키 세이준, Сэйдзюн Судзуки, 세이준 스즈키

Seijun Suzuki

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

2005
Princess Raccoon

as Director

2001
Pistol Opera

as Director

1993
Marriage

as Director

1991
Yumeji

as Director

1985
Capone Cries a Lot

as Director

1983
Kazoku no sentaku

as Director

1981
Kagero-za

as Director

1980
Zigeunerweisen

as Director

1979
1973
A Mummy’s Love

as Director

1973
1967
Branded to Kill

as Director

1966
Fighting Elegy

as Director

1966
Tokyo Drifter

as Director

1966
1965
1965
Tattooed Life

as Director

1965
1964
Gate of Flesh

as Director

1964
The Call of Blood

as Director

1963
Kanto Wanderer

as Director

1963
Youth of the Beast

as Director

1963
The Incorrigible

as Director

1962
Teenage Yakuza

as Director

1961
1961
Tokyo Knights

as Director

1961
Living by Karate

as Director

1960
1960
1960
1959
1959
Love Letter

as Director

1959
Age of Nudity

as Director

1958
Underworld Beauty

as Director

1958
1958
1958
Young Breasts

as Director

1957
1956
Victory is Ours

as Director

1956
Satan's Town

as Director

1956
1955
Duel at Sundown

as Assistant Director

1955
Passion and Rifle Bullets

as Assistant Director

1954
The Black Current

as Assistant Director

Writer

Art

1995
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers

as Supervising Art Director

Producer

2005
Princess Raccoon

as Executive Producer