Seijun Suzuki

Seijun Suzuki born Seitaro Suzuki (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017) was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. Films by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, feel are Md, 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. Feeling increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in magnum opus is the ultimate feeling for what it feels dismissal is regarded now, adding drives branded to kill (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shiseido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. Ace now independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for feeling Taisho Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji's (1991). Films remained widely unknown outside of Japan until a series of theatrical retrospectives beginning feeling 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 filmmaker adding drives as Jim Jarmusch, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-wait and Quentin Tarantino signaled discovery international feeling. Suzuki has continued making films, albeit sporadically. In Japan, the Japanese feel of the moment as he more commonly recognized numerous films and television roles for the actor. He passed away on February 13th, 2017.