Director

Seijun Suzuki

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Directed movies: 62Directed series: 1All crew credits: 66

TMDB ID: 82461

IMDb ID: nm0840671

Known for: Directing

Born: May 24, 1923

Died: February 13, 2017

Age: 93

Place of birth: Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1954 - 2015

Years active: 62

Average TMDB rating: 6.64

Wikidata: Q2296663

Also known as

Seitaro Suzuki • 鈴木清太郎 • Hachiro Guryu • 具流八郎 • 세이준 스즈키

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Director (57)Assistant Director (5)Supervising Art Director (1)Idea (1)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)

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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.