Seijun Suzuki

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-05-24 (94 years old)

Deathday

2017-02-13

Place of Birth

Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

Seijun Suzuki

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 success...

Production

1966

Fighting Elegy

as Director

1963

Kanto Wanderer

as Director

1958

2001

Pistol Opera

as Director

2005

Princess Raccoon

as Director

1966

Tokyo Drifter

as Director

1963

1965

1967

Branded to Kill

as Director

1964

Gate of Flesh

as Director

1965

Tattooed Life

as Director

1960

1981

Kagero-za

as Director

1991

Yumeji

as Director

1980

Zigeunerweisen

as Director

1966

1985

1979

1957

1964

1958

1959

1960

1956

Victory Is Ours

as Director

1961

1963

The Incorrigible

as Director

1973

A Mummy’s Love

as Director

1959

Love Letter

as Director

1960

1956

Satan's Town

as Director

1958

1959

Age of Nudity

as Director

1995

Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers

as Supervising Art Director

1954

The Black Current

as Assistant Director

1962

Teenage Yakuza

as Director

1961

Tokyo Knights

as Director

1959

Age of Nudity

as Writer

1958

Young Breasts

as Director

1961

Living by Karate

as Director

1993

Marriage

as Director

1983

1980

2005

Princess Raccoon

as Executive Producer

1955

Duel at Sundown

as Screenplay

1955

Duel at Sundown

as Assistant Director

1955

1955

Passion and Rifle Bullets

as Assistant Director

1956

1967

Branded to Kill

as Screenplay

1954

My Pistol Is Quick

as Assistant Director

1956

Evil Reward

as Assistant Director

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