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Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
May 24, 1923
Died
February 13, 2017
Place of Birth
Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As
- Seitaro Suzuki
- 鈴木清太郎
- Hachiro Guryu
- 具流八郎
- 스즈키 세이준
- Сэйдзюн Судзуки
- 세이준 스즈키
Seijun Suzuki
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Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Seijun Suzuki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
2015
6.3
Gazen
Milocrorze: A Love Story
2011
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Dreaming Awake
2008
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Matouqin Nocturne
2007
🎬
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Ryuun Naito
Boy
2007
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What's a Director?
2006
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From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
2005
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The Wings of Hakenkreuz
2004
6.8
Old Man's Ghost
Blessing Bell
2002
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Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
2002
Credits
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
2015
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Milocrorze: A Love Story
as Gazen
2011
6.3
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Dreaming Awake
2008
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Matouqin Nocturne
2007
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Boy
as Ryuun Naito
2007
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What's a Director?
2006
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From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
2005
6.0
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
2004
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Blessing Bell
as Old Man's Ghost
2002
6.8
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
as Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
2002
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The Erotic Empire
as self
2002
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The Moon
2000
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Oshimai no hi
2000
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Embalming
1999
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Let's Get Happy
1998
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Sleepless Town
as Ye Xiaodan
1998
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The Story of PuPu
as Old Man
1998
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Ki no ue no sogyo
1997
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Yurika-chan
as Grandpa
1997
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Sure Death 6
1996
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Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
1996
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Cold Fever
as Hirata's Grandfather
1995
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Discontinuous Bombing Incident
1991
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Tales of the Bizarre
1990
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La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine
as Kami-sama
1990
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The Rain Women
1990
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Virgin Road
1989
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Shiro and Marilyn
as Vet
1988
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Double Bed
as Man in Bar
1983
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MOMENT
1981
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I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
as Himself
1975
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