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Seijun Suzuki

Seijun Suzuki

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24 May 1923
13 Feb 2017
Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan

Biography

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 ...

Also Known As

Seitaro Suzuki, 鈴木清太郎, Hachiro Guryu, 具流八郎, 세이준 스즈키

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