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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Seijun Suzuki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Directing
Born: Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan, 1923-05-24
Died: 2017-02-13

Film

No.YearTitleRoleVote Average
11975Himself0
21981100
31983Man in Bar55
41988Vet70
519890
619900
719910
81995Hirata's Grandfather65
919960
1019960
111997Grandpa0
1219970
131998Old Man50
141998Ye Xiaodan71
1519980
16199949
1720000
1820000
192002Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter60
202002Old Man's Ghost68
2120040
22200560
2320060
2420080
252011Gazen63
26self0
272007Ryuun Naito70
2820070
2920150

Television

No.YearTitleRoleVote Average
11990Kami-sama80
2199078
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