Seijun Suzuki

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Seijun Suzuki was an avant-garde Japanese filmmaker renowned for his visually stylized, genre-bending yakuza films that became cult classics and influenced generations of directors.

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instanceOf avant-garde filmmaker
film director
human
screenwriter
awardReceived Blue Ribbon Awards
Japan Academy Prize
birthName Seitaro Suzuki
countryOfCitizenship Japan
employer Nikkatsu
genre avant-garde cinema
crime film
experimental film
yakuza film
influenced Jim Jarmusch
John Woo
Park Chan-wook
Quentin Tarantino
Wong Kar-wai
languageOfWorkOrName Japanese
movement Japanese New Wave
name Seijun Suzuki
nationality Japanese
nativeName 鈴木 清順
notableFor cult films
influencing later generations of filmmakers
visually stylized yakuza films
notableWork Branded to Kill
Fighting Elegy
Gate of Flesh
Kagero-za
Pistol Opera
Story of a Prostitute
Tokyo Drifter
Youth of the Beast
Yumeji
Zigeunerweisen
occupation actor
film director
screenwriter
placeOfBirth Tokyo
sexOrGender male
style elliptical storytelling
genre-bending narratives
highly stylized visuals
surreal imagery
workPeriod 1950s–2000s

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Japanese New Wave notableDirector Seijun Suzuki
Nikkatsu employed Seijun Suzuki
Branded to Kill director Seijun Suzuki
Seijun Suzuki name Seijun Suzuki
Takashi Miike influencedBy Seijun Suzuki