Tales of the Bizarre
1990
star 7.8
Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple wor...
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Seijun Suzuki
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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Filmography
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La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine
1990
star 8.0
The eleventh entry in the Toei Fushigi Comedy Series. Yuko Murikami stops by a shrine to pray for the new schoo...
Good Mourning
1994
Minori Amano becomes a widow on her honeymoon. Still, she becomes part of the Amano family's funeral home busin...
Double Bed
1983
star 5.1
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki w...
Sleepless Town
1998
star 7.4
Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's org...
Disciples of Hippocrates
1980
star 6.8
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on fi...
Dreaming Awake
2008
Recently appointed dean at a film school, Kimuro Hajime develops a special concern for one of his students, Dai...
The Story of PuPu
1998
star 5.0
Fu and Suzu are two hedonist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a journey to visit the tomb...
Milocrorze: A Love Story
2011
star 6.4
Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead Ovreneli Vrenelig...
Blessing Bell
2002
star 6.9
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other...
Embalming
1999
star 4.7
Miyako, a young female embalmer, is called to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide. While...
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
1991
What is the clue that connects the police dormitory bombing case & Keihin canal murder case with the corporate...
Virgin Road
1989
Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai
Shiro and Marilyn
1988
star 7.0
Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Z...
The Moon
2000
After her grandmother's passing, Natsumi, a third-year high school student, moves to Tokyo to live with her mot...
The Last Day
2000
MOMENT
1981
star 10.0
Pocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose predictions always come t...
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
1996
A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, b...
Let's Get Happy
1998
star 8.0
A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day before the...
Sure Death 6
1996
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play....
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
2004
When a man who as a student wanted to burn down his school meets a man years later, his new friend falls in lov...
What's a Director?
2006
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
Ki no ue no sogyo
1997
star 8.0
A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.
Matouqin Nocturne
2007
A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a...
Cold Fever
1995
star 6.4
A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to...
My Beloved Ultraseven
1993
Ichikawa Shinichi, who actually participated as a scriptwriter in the tokusatsu series Ultra Seven, depicts beh...
The Rain Women
1990
star 6.5
Rain in Tokyo area. Two girls holed up in their tiny apartment. They go out, steal cabbages, hit a supermarket...
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
2015
A tragic love story set in a mountain village in the Showa era, waiting for a fiancé who died in the war, but i...
The Erotic Empire
2002
A short documentary primarily focused on Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series.
Boy
2007
star 7.0
Jun, a 16-year-old teen, refuses to stand while the national anthem is being played at his graduation ceremony....
Yurika-chan
1997
An exciting 'psychic movie' starring Kanako Enomoto, adapted from the manga series by Yukio Tamai. Police detec...
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
2002
star 6.0
Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanes...
I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
1975
star 9.0
Three cinephile university students have a go at making their own Super-8 film.
Pachinko Graffiti
1992
star 8.0
With a single appointment letter, Tokyo University graduate Kohei's bright future and relationship with his hig...
From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
2005
star 6.0
Made for in 2005, this video interview features director Seijun Suzuki and production designer Takeo Kimura. Th...
Twist & Shoot: Mister Suzuki
Seijun Suzuki became a cinema legend in the 1960s with a handful of pop-art films. So how can you make a portra...