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.
What's a Director?
The Wings of Hakenkreuz
Discontinuous Bombing Incident
Cold Fever
(Hirata's Grandfather)
Yurika-chan
(Grandpa)
Sleepless Town
(Ye Xiaodan)
Milocrorze: A Love Story
(Gazen)
Double Bed
(Man in Bar)
MOMENT
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
Embalming
Ki no ue no sogyo
Blessing Bell
(Old Man's Ghost)
Dreaming Awake
The Erotic Empire
(self)
SOAR: I Wish You Were Here
The Story of PuPu
(Old Man)
Sure Death 6
Virgin Road
I Can't Wait Until It's Dark!
(Himself)
Shiro and Marilyn
(Vet)
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
(Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter)
Boy
(Ryuun Naito)
The Moon
From the Ruins: Making 'Gate of Flesh'
Matouqin Nocturne
Let's Get Happy
Oshimai no hi
La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine
(Kami-sama)
Tales of the Bizarre
The Claws of the Divine Beast
(Director)
Lupin the Third: The Legend of the Gold of Babylon
(Director)
Fighting Elegy
(Director)
Kanto Wanderer
(Director)
Underworld Beauty
(Director)
Princess Raccoon
(Director)
Pistol Opera
(Director)
Tokyo Drifter
(Director)
Youth of the Beast
(Director)
Story of a Prostitute
(Director)
Branded to Kill
(Director)
Take Aim at the Police Van
(Director)
Gate of Flesh
(Director)
Tattooed Life
(Director)
Fighting Delinquents
(Director)
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
(Director)
Zigeunerweisen
(Director)
Kagero-za
(Director)
Yumeji
(Director)
The Flower and the Angry Waves
(Director)
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
(Director)
Carmen from Kawachi
(Director)
A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
(Director)
A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
(Writer)
Capone Cries a Lot
(Director)
The Fang in the Hole
(Director)
Storm of Falling Petals: Banner of a Fireman in the Flames
(Director)
Storm of Falling Petals: Banner of a Fireman in the Flames
(Screenplay)
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
(Director)
Eight Hours of Terror
(Director)
The Call of Blood
(Director)
Voice Without a Shadow
(Director)
Passport to Darkness
(Director)
The Sleeping Beast Within
(Director)
Smashing the 0-Line
(Director)
Victory is Ours
(Director)
Good Evening Dear Husband: A Duel
(Director)
The Man with a Shotgun
(Director)
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
(Director)
The Incorrigible
(Director)
A Mummy’s Love
(Director)
Love Letter
(Director)
Everything Goes Wrong
(Director)
Satan's Town
(Director)
The Boy Who Came Back
(Director)
Age of Nudity
(Director)
Inn of the Floating Weeds
(Director)
Lupin the Third: Greatest Capers
(Supervising Art Director)
Born Under Crossed Stars
(Director)
The Black Current
(Assistant Director)
Teenage Yakuza
(Director)
Pure Emotions of the Sea
(Director)
Tokyo Knights
(Director)
Blood-Red Water in the Channel
(Director)
Age of Nudity
(Writer)
Young Breasts
(Director)
Living by Karate
(Director)
Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
(Director)
Marriage
(Director)
Kazoku no sentaku
(Director)
Cherry Blossoms in Spring
(Director)
The Naked Woman and the Gun
(Director)
Daughter of Time
(Idea)
Princess Raccoon
(Executive Producer)
Duel at Sundown
(Screenplay)
Duel at Sundown
(Assistant Director)
Passion and Rifle Bullets
(Screenplay)
Passion and Rifle Bullets
(Assistant Director)
Semyonov's Gold Ingots
(Screenplay)
Branded to Kill
(Screenplay)
Lupin the Third
(Writer)
Horror Theater Unbalance
(Director)