Seijun Suzuki

Seijun Suzuki

May 24, 1923 · 103 years old

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 predomin…

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22 titles
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Branded to Kill

Branded to Kill

1967 · 1h 31m · Movie

After a botched assignment, a rice-fetishizing hitman finds himself in conflict with his organization, and one mysterious, dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.

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Tokyo Drifter

Tokyo Drifter

1966 · 1h 22m · Movie

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.

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Story of a Prostitute

Story of a Prostitute

1965 · 1h 36m · Movie

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

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Zigeunerweisen

Zigeunerweisen

1980 · 2h 24m · Movie

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

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Take Aim at the Police Van

Take Aim at the Police Van

1960 · 1h 19m · Movie

A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.

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Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon

Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon

1985 · 1h 40m · Movie

Lupin squares off with two criminal families and Inspector Zenigata's new female patrol to track down a hoard of biblical-era treasure.

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Tattooed Life

Tattooed Life

1965 · 1h 27m · Movie

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

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Kagero-za

Kagero-za

1981 · 2h 19m · Movie

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

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Sleepless Town

Sleepless Town

1998 · 2h 2m · Movie

Kabukicho is a forgotten world. A place where people of different tongues and races meet, where they fight against each other to gain money, power and territory. The struggle which never ends. Based on a dangerous love story which...

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Yumeji

Yumeji

1991 · 2h 8m · Movie

Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him.

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Blessing Bell

Blessing Bell

2002 · 1h 27m · Movie

After losing his job at the factory Igarashi aimlessly wanders through Tokyo where he encounters various people and gains insight into their lives.

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Everything Goes Wrong

Everything Goes Wrong

1960 · 1h 11m · Movie

The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.

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The Man with a Shotgun

The Man with a Shotgun

1961 · 1h 24m · Movie

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

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Eight Hours of Terror

Eight Hours of Terror

1957 · 1h 18m · Movie

The plot concerns a passenger train which is stalled when a typhoon wrecks the tracks. The commuters are offloaded onto a shuttle bus, which is then taken over by a pair of sadistic gangsters.

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Milocrorze: A Love Story

Milocrorze: A Love Story

2011 · 1h 30m · Movie

A mish-mash of past and present; A childlike man, a counselor, and a one-eyed ronin are all connected.

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The Sleeping Beast Within

The Sleeping Beast Within

1960 · 1h 26m · Movie

A businessman returns from an extended trip, but something seems off. Criminal operations and religious cults come into play, while the man's daughter and her journalist boyfriend race to find the truth.

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Tokyo Knights

Tokyo Knights

1961 · 1h 22m · Movie

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

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Smashing the 0-Line

Smashing the 0-Line

1960 · 1h 23m · Movie

Two reporters of divergent morals investigate a drug ring, delving deeper into the underworld in the process.

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Our Blood Will Not Forgive

Our Blood Will Not Forgive

1964 · 1h 37m · Movie

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza for the death of their father.

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Capone Cries a Lot

Capone Cries a Lot

1985 · 2h 10m · Movie

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

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The Story of Pupu

The Story of Pupu

1998 · 1h 15m · Movie

Fu and Suzu are two pretty anarchist girls, who take to the road. They are off to visit the tomb of a small pig named PUPU. On the way, they meet Suzu's ex-lover, a gay couple, and a golf player; always getting in trouble. But whe...

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