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Seijun Suzuki (鈴木 清順, Suzuki Seijun), born Seitaro Suzuki (鈴木 清太郎, Suzuki Seitarō) (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. [2]
Director: Zigeunerweisen. Seijun Suzuki was born in Nihonbashi, Tôkyô, on May 24, 1923. In 1943, he entered the army to fight at the front. In 1946, he enrolled in the film department of the Kamakura Academy and passed the assistant director's exam.
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Feb 22, 2017 · Seijun Suzuki, a Japanese filmmaker who enlivened his low-budget genre movies with pop-art flair and avant-garde theatrics, inspiring American directors like Quentin Tarantino and Jim Jarmusch,...
- Tokyo Drifter. Suzuki said that the utter boredom of making cookie-cutter movies drew him up the wall and compelled him to experiment. His frustration with the genre claustrophobia arguably peaked in Tokyo Drifter, a gonzo yakuza musical that led to his commercial peril.
- Branded to Kill. The reverse-James Bond culmination of Suzuki’s restlessness and his growing lean towards boldness, complete trope subversion, and absurdist humor, resulted in the underrated (at that time) gem Branded to Kill.
- Zigeunerweisen. Three years after his rather mediocre attempt of a comeback in A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness, Suzuki emerges with Zigeunerweisen, a supernatural melodrama set in 1920s Japan, and a dramatic first installment of the art house Taisho trilogy, which also included Heat-Haze Theatre and Yumeji.
- Youth of the Beast. One of the greatest yakuza movies, the whimsical Youth of the Beast is famously considered to be the turning point of Suzuki’s career.
Feb 24, 2017 · A Salute to Seijun Suzuki. C inema lost one of its most venerated maestros of excess last week with the passing of director Seijun Suzuki, whose signature films from the 1960s exploded the conventions of the Japanese studio system.
Seijun Suzuki. Director: Zigeunerweisen. Seijun Suzuki was born in Nihonbashi, Tôkyô, on May 24, 1923. In 1943, he entered the army to fight at the front. In 1946, he enrolled in the film department of the Kamakura Academy and passed the assistant director's exam.
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Feb 22, 2017 · Suzuki (born Seitaro Suzuki), who died on February 13, in Tokyo, at the age of 93, was a manipulative sneak; he took on mundane gangster projects and laced them with his own bizarre style—phantasmagoric, exaggerated, sometimes vibrant and sometimes starkly black-and-white and washed out, a histrionic masquerade of men with guns.
