Seijun Suzuki
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).
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Milocrorze: A Love Story
actor
2011
Dreaming Awake
actor
2008
What's a Director?
actor
2006
Princess Raccoon
director
2005
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
actor
2004
Blessing Bell
actor
2002
Pistol Opera
director
2001
The Moon
actor
2000
The Last Day
actor
2000
Embalming
actor
1999
Let's Get Happy
actor
1998
Sleepless Town
actor
1998
The Story of PuPu
actor
1998
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
actor
1996
Sure Death 6
actor
1996
Cold Fever
actor
1995
Yumeji
director
1991
Virgin Road
actor
1989
Shiro and Marilyn
actor
1988
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
director
1985
Capone Cries a Lot
director
1985
Kazoku no sentaku
director
1983
Double Bed
actor
1983
Storm of Falling Petals: Banner of a Fireman in the Flames
writer
1983
Storm of Falling Petals: Banner of a Fireman in the Flames
director
1983
Cherry Blossoms in Spring
director
1983
Kagero-za
director
1981
Disciples of Hippocrates
actor
1980
Zigeunerweisen
director
1980
The Fang in the Hole
director
1979
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
director
1977
Branded to Kill
director
1967
Branded to Kill
writer
1967
Fighting Elegy
director
1966
Tokyo Drifter
director
1966
Carmen from Kawachi
director
1966
Tattooed Life
director
1965
Born Under Crossed Stars
director
1965
Story of a Prostitute
director
1965
The Call of Blood
director
1964
Gate of Flesh
director
1964
The Flower and the Angry Waves
director
1964
Kanto Wanderer
director
1963
The Incorrigible
director
1963
Youth of the Beast
director
1963
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
director
1963
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
director
1962
Teenage Yakuza
director
1962