Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1923-05-24
Day of Death
2017-02-13
Place of Birth
Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Seijun Suzuki
Biography
Seijun Suzuki born Seitaro Suzuki (24 May 1923 β 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 TaishΕ 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 (32)
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
2015
Milocrorze: A Love Story
2011Dreaming Awake
2008
Matouqin Nocturne
2007Boy
2007
What's a Director?
2006From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
2005
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
2004
Blessing Bell
2002
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
2002The Erotic Empire
2002
The Moon
2000
The Last Day
2000
Embalming
1999
