FILM DIRECTOR

Seijun Suzuki

1923 - 2017

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Seijun Suzuki (鈴木 清順, Suzuki Seijun), born Seitaro Suzuki (鈴木 清太郎, Suzuki Seitarō) (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their florid visual style, absurd humour, and a playful rejection of traditional film grammar. 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 as his magnum opus, Branded to Kill (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Seijun Suzuki is the 590th most popular film director (down from 523rd in 2019), the 918th most popular biography from Japan (down from 776th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Seijun Suzuki ranks 590 out of 2,041. Before him are Jaco Van Dormael, Hugh Hudson, Jennifer Lee, Mauritz Stiller, Ann Hui, and Paul Haggis. After him are Ken Annakin, John Lasseter, Ralph Bakshi, Yorgos Lanthimos, Ernest B. Schoedsack, and Gérard Krawczyk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Seijun Suzuki ranks 178. Before him are Zofia Posmysz, Gordon Mitchell, Milt Jackson, Arthur Hiller, Shoshana Damari, and Linda Darnell. After him are Michael V. Gazzo, Gerard Reve, Lydia Clarke, Edward Clancy, Gustavo Rojo, and Rafael Addiego Bruno. Among people deceased in 2017, Seijun Suzuki ranks 207. Before him are Michael Bond, Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Allan Holdsworth, Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, Bernard Francis Law, and Željko Perušić. After him are A. R. Penck, Colin Groves, Sonny Landham, William Baumol, Bengt Gustavsson, and Gretel Bergmann.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Seijun Suzuki ranks 918 out of 6,245. Before him are Koichi Kudo (1909), Kodama Gentarō (1852), Kanō Motonobu (1476), Kabayama Sukenori (1837), Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), and Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959). After him are Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Hiroshi Ninomiya (1937), Asakura Yoshikage (1533), Nagakura Shinpachi (1839), Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), and Jirō Minami (1874).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Seijun Suzuki ranks 27. Before him are Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941), Takashi Miike (1960), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), and Osamu Dezaki (1943). After him are Kaneto Shindo (1912), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), Keisuke Kinoshita (1912), Yoji Yamada (1931), Jun'ichi Kōuchi (1886), and Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910).

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