1923-05-24 ( 101 years old ) in 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 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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Movies
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
2015-01-31
Milocrorze: A Love Story
2011-02-18
Dreaming Awake
2008-10-18
Matouqin Nocturne
2007-07-21
Boy
2007-04-22
What's a Director?
2006-11-04
From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
2005-07-26
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
2004-07-24
Blessing Bell
2002-12-08
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
2002-01-10
The Erotic Empire
2002-01-01
The Moon
2000-07-08
Oshimai no hi
2000-01-15
Embalming
1999-07-30
Let's Get Happy
1998-12-09
Sleepless Town
1998-06-27
The Story of PuPu
1998-04-04
Ki no ue no sogyo
1997-03-29
Yurika-chan
1997-01-01
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
1996-05-25
Sure Death 6
1996-05-25
Cold Fever
1995-02-10
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
1991-05-13
The Rain Women
1990-01-01
Virgin Road
1989-07-21
Shiro and Marilyn
1988-07-16
Double Bed
1983-08-05
MOMENT
1981-04-03
I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
1975-04-06
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