Seijun Suzuki

Works
Director (8), Screenplay (1), Actor (1),
Birthday
1923-05-24

Seijun Suzuki - Director, Screenplay, known for his work in such projectsAdvice for working with the Map of emotions: «Yumeji» (1991), «Tokyo Drifter» (1966), «Kagero-za» (1981), «Youth of the Beast» (1963), «Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon» (1985),

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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The most significant works of Seijun Suzuki

Branded to Kill (1967)

Position: Director, Screenplay
Youth of the Beast (1963)

Position: Director
Fighting Elegy (1966)

Position: Director
Tokyo Drifter (1966)

Position: Director
Embalming (1999)
Character: - Leading
Blessing Bell (2002)
Character: Old Man's Ghost
Zigeunerweisen (1980)

Position: Director
Kagero-za (1981)

Position: Director
Yumeji (1991)

Position: Director


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