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Seijun Suzuki
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 the…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2015
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2011
Milocrorze: A Love Story
Movie Gazen
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2008
Dreaming Awake
Movie
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2007
Matouqin Nocturne
Movie
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2007
Boy
Movie Ryuun Naito
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2006
What's a Director?
Movie
- 2005
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2005
Princess Raccoon
Movie Director
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2004
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
Movie
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2002
Blessing Bell
Movie Old Man's Ghost
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2002
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
Movie Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
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2002
The Erotic Empire
Movie self
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2001
Pistol Opera
Movie Director
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2000
The Moon
Movie
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2000
The Last Day
Movie
More credits
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1999
Embalming
Movie
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1998
Let's Get Happy
Movie
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1998
Sleepless Town
Movie Ye Xiaodan
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1998
The Story of PuPu
Movie Old Man
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1997
Ki no ue no sogyo
Movie
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1997
Yurika-chan
Movie Grandpa
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1996
Sure Death 6
Movie
- 1996
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1995
Cold Fever
Movie Hirata's Grandfather
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1995
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
Movie Supervising Art Director
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1994
Good Mourning
TV show
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1993
Marriage
Movie Director
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1993
My Beloved Ultraseven
Movie Eiji Tsuburaya
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1992
Pachinko Graffiti
Movie
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1992
A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
Movie Director
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1991
Yumeji
Movie Director
- 1991
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1990
The Rain Women
Movie
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1990
Tales of the Bizarre
TV show
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1990
La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine
TV show Kami-sama
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1989
Virgin Road
Movie
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1988
Shiro and Marilyn
Movie Vet
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1985
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
Movie Director
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1985
Capone Cries a Lot
Movie Director
