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Seijun Suzuki , born Seitaro Suzuki , was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known 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 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).
Birth Name
Seitaro Suzuki
Born
Thursday, 24 May 1923
Died
Monday, 13 February 2017
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Milocrorze: A Love Story | Gazen | 2011 |
Blessing Bell | Old Man’s Ghost / Old Man's Ghost | 2002 |
Oshimai no hi | 2000 | |
EM Embalming | 1999 | |
Sleepless Town | 1998 | |
The Story of Pupu | the old man | 1998 |
Ki no ue no sogyo | Hospital director Komine | 1997 |
Cold Fever | Hirata's Grandfather | 1995 |
The Masked Belle Poitrine Beautiful Masked Girl Poitrine | Kami-sama | 1990 |
Double Bed | Man in Bar | 1983 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Milocrorze: A Love Story | Gazen | 2011 |
Blessing Bell | Old Man’s Ghost / Old Man's Ghost | 2002 |
Oshimai no hi | 2000 | |
EM Embalming | 1999 | |
Sleepless Town | 1998 | |
The Story of Pupu | the old man | 1998 |
Ki no ue no sogyo | Hospital director Komine | 1997 |
Cold Fever | Hirata's Grandfather | 1995 |
The Masked Belle Poitrine Beautiful Masked Girl Poitrine | Kami-sama | 1990 |
Double Bed | Man in Bar | 1983 |
Kuraku naru-made matenai! | 1975 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Princess Raccoon | 2005 |