Seijun Suzuki Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Seijun Suzuki Trailers
Total trailers found: 97
16 July 1993
An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.
03 April 1981
Pocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose predictions always come true.
20 June 1980
Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Tang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious claw marks across his face.
26 June 1956
Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his gold bullion somewhere.
21 August 1981
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
27 June 1998
Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs.
22 April 2007
Jun, a 16-year-old teen, refuses to stand while the national anthem is being played at his graduation ceremony.
21 July 2007
A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
03 October 1964
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
21 November 1980
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he's really cut out to be a doctor.
23 November 1960
This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy.
31 May 1991
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
08 December 2002
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
28 May 2005
Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human).
13 July 1985
Lupin squares off with two criminal families and Inspector Zenigata's new female patrol to track down a hoard of biblical-era treasure.
08 October 1960
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. 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, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.
08 March 1957
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
21 April 1963
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
05 August 1983
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college.
10 April 1966
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo.
07 December 1957
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed for a murder he didn't commit.
09 November 1966
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
09 January 1957
Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison.
21 March 1956
A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after double crossing them in a fixing scam.
01 January 1992
A semi-autobiographical film about a young man from Tokyo who moves to Hirosaki in the early Shōwa era.
23 September 1979
A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.
27 October 2001
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
27 February 1965
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate.
01 February 1961
A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.
08 July 2000
After her grandmother's passing, Natsumi, a third-year high school student, moves to Tokyo to live with her mother Haruka, who works as a stripper in Asakusa.
16 April 1961
Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.
21 May 1977
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
11 July 1956
A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending.
25 August 1965
A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko.
18 February 2011
Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead Ovreneli Vreneligare was just a little boy, he fell in love in the park.
31 May 1964
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos.
23 November 1963
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution.
08 November 1983
A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past.
09 December 1962
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer.
08 September 1958
A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe Misako).
15 June 1967
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
03 June 1961
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter.
23 July 1983
The Oedo Investigative Network investigates a mysterious fire one evening. Could it be connected to a mysterious man in an eyepatch who just came into town?
04 November 2006
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
16 February 1985
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.
16 July 1988
Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named Marilyn.
01 December 1990
Rain in Tokyo area. Two girls holed up in their tiny apartment. They go out, steal cabbages, hit a supermarket and kill a cow.
10 January 2002
Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918-2010), recall how they made their great masterpieces about the Yakuza underworld for the Nikkatsu film company.
08 February 1964
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her.
08 September 1959
The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.
01 April 1980
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.
06 April 1975
Three cinephile university students have a go at making their own Super-8 film.
13 November 1965
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
07 February 1966
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model.
25 March 1958
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched.
27 January 1960
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
25 June 1960
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop.
27 January 1963
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.
12 June 1968
A delirious and psychedelic TV short by Suzuki.
