
Known for
Directing
Born
May 24, 1923
Birthplace
Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan
Died
February 13, 2017 (aged 93)
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...
2026
as Self (archive footage)
2015
2011
as Gazen
2008
2007
2007
as Ryuun Naito
2006
2005
2005
Director, Executive Producer
2004
2002
as Old Man's Ghost
2002
as Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
2002
as self
2001
Director
2000
2000
1999
1998
1998
as Ye Xiaodan
1998
as Old Man
1997
1997
as Grandpa
1996
1996
1995
as Hirata's Grandfather