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 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 24, 1923
Deathday: February 13, 2017
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Known For
What's a Director?
2006-11-04
What's a Director?
Overview: Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-04
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The Wings of Hakenkreuz
2004-07-24
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
Overview: When a man who as a student wanted to burn down his school meets a man years later, his new friend falls in love with the former female class-mate who herself is in love with the would-be arsonist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-07-24
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Discontinuous Bombing Incident
1991-05-13
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
Overview: What is the clue that connects the police dormitory bombing case & Keihin canal murder case with the corporate bombing case 17 years ago? Detective Tamori chases a mystery!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-13
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Cold Fever
1995-02-10
Cold Fever
Overview: A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-02-10
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Yurika-chan
1997-01-01
Yurika-chan
Overview: An exciting 'psychic movie' starring Kanako Enomoto, adapted from the manga series by Yukio Tamai. Police detectives searching for clues related to a serial murder case seek out help from high schooler Yurika, who possesses latent split personality psychic abilities. The mystery deepens once Yurika is brought face-to-face with the crime scenes.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Sleepless Town
1998-06-27
Sleepless Town
Overview: Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-06-27
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Milocrorze: A Love Story
2011-02-18
Milocrorze: A Love Story
Overview: Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead Ovreneli Vreneligare was just a little boy, he fell in love in the park. Sharing a juice box with the stunningly gorgeous Milocrorze, he took her home to his cat, Verandola Gorgonzola, and made her his girlfriend until the fickle beauty abandoned him, and he covered the hole in his heart with a pot lid he found lying on the ground. This is only the beginning of his story but it’s not the end of his heartbreak. MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY is a candy-flavored anthology of hopeless l’amour, and it has many victims.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-02-18
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Double Bed
1983-08-05
Double Bed
Overview: Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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MOMENT
1981-04-03
MOMENT
Overview: Pocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose predictions always come true. Along the way, she talks about boyfriends with her two friends, meets a strange boy with heart disease, and regularly bumps into a serial bomber.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-04-03
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Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
1996-05-25
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
Overview: A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, but it was an operation to separate what had been taken into another body. The second in a series depicting the episode of the birth of Pinoko.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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Embalming
1999-07-30
Embalming
Overview: Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle buried deep in the boy’s flesh where it should not be. During the night the head is removed from the body and stolen, Miyako begins a desperate search for it so she can finish her work. Miyako search finds her encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, incest, psychopathic schizophrenics as well as some very dark secrets from here own past.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-30
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Ki no ue no sogyo
1997-03-29
Ki no ue no sogyo
Overview: A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-03-29
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Blessing Bell
2002-12-08
Blessing Bell
Overview: Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-12-08
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Dreaming Awake
2008-10-18
Dreaming Awake
Overview: Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Daisuke. The brash, headstrong young man is fixated on with the Second World War. He feels a sense of frustration at the irrational sacrifice of young people's lives during the war six decades earlier. Daisuke finds that he can vent his frustrations to Kimuro, who experienced the war firsthand. Kimuro's wife, Emiko, is also troubled by memories of the war. She lost a loved one in the war and has never gotten over it. And Kimuro himself also has something from the past that he has yet to face. He believes that the burden of his unresolved past will eventually be the death of him. When Daisuke's neurosis causes him to quit school, life changes for all three of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-18
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The Erotic Empire
The Erotic Empire
Overview: A short history of the Japanese 'Pink' movie, focusing on the output of the Nikkatsu studio.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
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SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
2015-01-31
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
Overview: A tragic love story set in a mountain village in the Showa era, waiting for a fiancé who died in the war, but it is more than that. It breaks through the existing concept of a film with a beginning, middle, and end, and like Fellini or Godard... Hara Masato's cosmic film philosophy on the theme of "human history and media" unfolds like a symphony.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-31
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The Story of PuPu
1998-04-04
The Story of PuPu
Overview: Fu and Suzu are two pretty anarchist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a journey to visit the tomb of a small pig by name Pupu. On the way, they meet Suzu's ex-lover, a gay couple, and a golf player; always getting in trouble. But whenever trouble comes, 'Trunk Man' the hero appears to save them.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-04
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Sure Death 6
1996-05-25
Sure Death 6
Overview: When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an assassin, who by chance encounters an old friend...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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Virgin Road
1989-07-21
Virgin Road
Overview: Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-07-21
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I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
1975-04-06
I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
Overview: Three cinephile university students have a go at making their own Super-8 film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-06
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Shiro and Marilyn
1988-07-16
Shiro and Marilyn
Overview: Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named Marilyn. Shiro is portrayed by the real-life Shiro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-16
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Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
2002-01-10
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
Overview: Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918-2010), recall how they made their great masterpieces about the Yakuza underworld for the Nikkatsu film company.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2002-01-10
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Boy
2007-04-22
Boy
Overview: Jun, a 16-year-old teen, refuses to stand while the national anthem is being played at his graduation ceremony. This event will totally change his life, as he involuntarily becomes the new hero of a rebel anti-system youth. Singer Muy's pop music and his friend, Nozomi, with whom he shares his sadness and hatred for the society that surrounds them, help him bear his terrible loneliness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-04-22
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The Moon
2000-07-08
The Moon
Overview: After her grandmother's passing, Natsumi, a third-year high school student, moves to Tokyo to live with her mother Haruka, who works as a stripper in Asakusa. Having been separated from her mother since elementary school, Natsumi initially finds it difficult to connect and often clashes with her. However, as time goes on, she begins to understand and accept her mother's unconventional lifestyle."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-08
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From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
2005-07-26
From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
Overview: Made for in 2005, this video interview features director Seijun Suzuki and production designer Takeo Kimura. These longtime collaborators discuss the making of GATE OF FLESH.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-26
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Matouqin Nocturne
2007-07-21
Matouqin Nocturne
Overview: A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The brilliantly colored images have an avant-garde charm while hiding the sadness of the war, and will grab the viewer's heart.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-21
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Let's Get Happy
1998-12-09
Let's Get Happy
Overview: A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day before the dissolution of the Yamamuro group, it is reported that the leader of the hostile organization was assassinated by someone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-09
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Oshimai no hi
2000-01-15
Oshimai no hi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-15
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The Rain Women
1990-01-01
The Rain Women
Overview: Rain in Tokyo area. Two girls holed up in their tiny apartment. They go out, steal cabbages, hit a supermarket and kill a cow. The sun comes out and changes everything. Alive with spirited spontaneity plus a dash of anarchy, The Rain Women is the true heir to Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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