Seijun Suzuki

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Gate Of Flesh review by A customer from Paignton, Devon

Profoundly moving images with an intoxicating beauty 23 February 2005
...anese cinema, especially 'Pink' cinema of the 1960's and 70's, Gate of Flesh is Seijun Suzuki's foray in to exploitation cinema. What could be more exploitative than the sub... Read customer review

Tokyo Drifter review by from Edinburgh, Scotland

Style in abundance 29 July 2004
...Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter seems a little dated at times, but there's no arguing that it is a stylish film. A deliberately disjointed narrative, skewed camera angles, pop... Read customer review

Branded To Kill review by from Norfolk

Cook me some rice... 13 March 2004
...the film which forced the Nikkatsu studio to fire their uncontrollable director Seijun Suzuki, citing his "incomprehensible movies" as a breach of contract. Made just a y... Read customer review

Princess Raccoon on DVD (2005)
Starring: Zhang Ziyi, Jo Odagiri, Hiroko Yakushimaru
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Chinese superstar Zhang Ziyi (Memoirs Of A Geisha) stars in the latest film from master film maker Seijun Suzuki; a magical musical adaptation of a well known Japanese folktale. Ziyi stars as Tanuki-hime, a raccoon spirit princess who falls in love with Amechiyo (Jo Odagiri), a human prince ..read more »

51% from 468 members

Pistol Opera on DVD (2001)
Starring: Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Seijun Suzuki, the legendary Japanese director probably best known for the cult hit BRANDED TO KILL, returns with this movie about a league of killers of hire. Something of a sequel to BRANDED TO KILL, the film stars Makiko Esumi as a killer named Miyuki Minazuki but known as "Stray Cat" the number ..read more »

52% from 172 members

Cold Fever on DVD (1995)
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Fisher Stevens, Lili Taylor
Director: Fredrik Thor Fridriksson, Fredrik Thor Fridrikss
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A charming, acclaimed Icelandic road saga about a Japanese man's spiritual quest through a snowbound landscape littered with winsome native inhabitants. Hirata is forced to cancel his annual golf trip in Hawaii in order to fulfill a Japanese tradition. He must travel to the river where his parents ..read more »

60% from 736 members

Branded To Kill on DVD (1967)
Starring: Joe Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, Annu Mari
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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A not-quite tongue-in-cheek send-up of Japanese censorship and pat, by-the-numbers yakuza gangster films, this gonzo feature follows a lower-level underworld assassin (Joe Shishido) as he's toyed with and tormented by a higher-up after a botched job--caused by a butterfly. Seijun Suzuki's ..read more »

62% from 609 members

Fighting Elegy on DVD (1966)
Starring: Hideki Takahashi, Yusuke Kawazu, Takeshi Kato
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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From Seijun Suzuki, the visionary Japanese director of BRANDED TO KILL and TOKYO DRIFTER, comes this tale of disaffected youth. FIGHTING ELEGY is the story of Kiroku; a young man who by suppressing his sexual desires, finds release only through gang culture and violence.

59% from 86 members

Tokyo Drifter on DVD (1966)
Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Ezumi
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Maverick Japanese director Seijun Suzuki turns the traditional yakuza gangster film on its ear with this stylish, intentionally oblique tale of a gangster whose maddening dependence on long-obsolete honor codes spurs rivals and even his own bosses to hunt him down.To experience a film by this B-..read more »

61% from 785 members

The Flowers And the Angry Waves on DVD (1964)
Starring: Akira Kobayashi, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawaji
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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A riotous, bloody, all-action historical epic set in 19th Century Tokyo. Akira Kobayashi (Kanto Wanderer) stars as a coal-miner who leads a rebellion against a vicious tyrant, played with villainous relish by Suzuki regular Tamio Kawaji. Add to this a heady mix of violence, gang fights, blackmail, ..read more »

58% from 78 members

Gate Of Flesh on DVD (1964)
Starring: Jo Shishado, Yumiko Nagawa
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Set in Tokyo just after the war, this is the story of a group of prostitutes who live and work in a derelict building. Japanese dialogue.

49% from 482 members

Youth of the Beast (1963)
Starring: Jô Shishido, Ichirô Kijima, Misako Watanabe
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Youth of the Beast marked a turning point in director Seijun Suzuki's career. No longer content to just crank out production-line gangster films, here Suzuki starts to assert his own voice. The plot is fairly typical for the genre: chipmunk-cheeked Jo Shishido stars as ex-cop Jo Mizuno, who muscles ..read more »

60% from 1 member
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Fighting Delinquents on DVD (1960)
Starring: Koji Wada, Chikako Hosokawa, Eitaro Ozawa
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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From legendary director Seijun Suzuki (TOKYO DRIFTER, BRANDED TO KILL) comes this colourful, yet shocking potboiler; the director’s first colour feature. THE FIGTING DELINQUENTS melds traditional regional life with what was then emerging youth culture that had been filtering in from the West.

58% from 42 members

Princess Raccoon - 2.5 stars
Pistol Opera - 2.5 stars
Cold Fever - 3.0 stars
Branded To Kill - 3.0 stars
Fighting Elegy - 3.0 stars

Branded To Kill - 3.0 stars
Tokyo Drifter - 3.0 stars
Cold Fever - 3.0 stars
Fighting Elegy - 3.0 stars
The Flowers And the Angry Waves - 3.0 stars

Fighting Delinquents - 3.0 stars
Youth of the Beast - 3.0 stars
Gate Of Flesh - 2.5 stars
Princess Raccoon - 2.5 stars
Pistol Opera - 2.5 stars

Ichirô Kijima - 2 times - show films
Akiji Kobayashi - 2 times - show films
Jô Shishido - 2 times - show films
Misako Watanabe - 2 times - show films
Chieko Matsubara - 2 times - show films