2011
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Sep 12, 2024 · Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) remains loyal to the conventions of the yakuza film, but Tattooed Life contains flashes of his later creative genius, including a final act of explosive visual excess that has become one of the director’s all-time classic scenes.
- Dillon Gonzales
Sep 3, 2024 · Seijun Suzuki is a Japanese director who is partly famous for being fired from Nikkatsu after making the bizarre (but superb) Branded to Kill in 1967. It wasn’t a case of this particular film immediately angering the studio though, it was more a case of it being the straw that broke the camel’s back.
2 days ago · Directed by Seijun Suzuki Image via Nikkatsu. One of the most stylish action movies of the '60s, Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter is one of the best-looking thrillers Japan has ever put out. It's the ...
6 days ago · For a filmmaker like Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill; Tokyo Drifter), born before World War II and who served in Japan’s army during it, what he includes and avoids speaks a great deal about the way in which he views what matters.
Apr 20, 2024 · Suzuki was told by his producer that was why he was chosen to direct the remake, though in one of the two Enlglish-language books on Suzuki that came out this year, either Peter Yacavone's or William Carroll's, it was suggested that Akira Kobayashi requested Suzuki for the project, remembering him fondly from their work a few years before on ...
3 days ago · Premise. Lupin III, the grandson of the fictional gentleman thief, Arsène Lupin, is considered the world's greatest thief, known for announcing his intentions to steal valuable objects by sending a calling card to their owners.
6 days ago · Audio commentary by William Carroll, author of Seijun Suzuki and Postwar Cinema gets into the romantic ideal of the Yakuza was spread in film. He describes and identifies Suzuki’s style of ...
