Seijun Suzuki
Gender: Male
Born: 1923
Nationality: Japan
Movies: A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness, Branded to Kill, Capone Cries a Lot, Carmen from Kawachi, Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards, Detective Bureau 23: Go to Hell, Bastards!, Eight Hours of Terror, Everything Goes Wrong, Fighting Delinquents, Fighting Elegy, Gate of Flesh, Heat Shimmer Theater, Kanto Wanderer, Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon, Man with a Shotgun, Our Blood Will Not Forgive, Pistol Opera, Princess Raccoon, Stories of Bastards: Born Under a Bad Star, Story of a Prostitute, Take Aim at the Police Van, Tattooed Life, The Bastard, The Flower and the Angry Waves, The Naked Woman and the Gun, Tokyo Drifter, Underworld Beauty, Victory Is Mine, Voice Without a Shadow, Young Breasts, Youth of the Beast, Yumeji, Zigeunerweisen
Seijun Suzuki (鈴木 清順, Suzuki Seijun), born Seitaro Suzuki (鈴木 清太郎 Suzuki Seitarō) on May 24, 1923, is 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
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