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There’s no business like Japanese show business, at least as practiced by ’60s B-movie savant Seijun Suzuki. Favoring violent non sequiturs and theatrical artifice over narrative continuity and genre boundaries, he hit audiences with hot and cold blasts of displacement, playfully tactile uses of image and sound, mind games masquerading as hand jobs.
Nov 5, 2015 · Seijun Suzuki, Gate of Flesh, 1964, 35 mm, color, sound, 90 minutes. Almost unique to Suzuki is his idiosyncratic use of double exposures, either to provide perspective on a character’s inner life or to hold two evenly balanced counterpoised images in the same frame, his own version of the split-screen technique that was slowly gaining popularity in contemporary Hollywood.
Feb 22, 2017 · Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki, who blended Pop Art and the Yakuza to create unconventional crime dramas, died in a hospital in Tokyo on February 13. The ninety-three-year-old director’s death was…
Among its many notable episodes was the firing of its now most celebrated director, Seijun Suzuki, in 1967, following outrage over Suzuki’s legendary yakuza film of that year, Branded to Kill, and the 1971 decision to commit to roman porno as the studio’s new creative direction. However practical the decision to turn to explicit material to keep the studio economically viable, the result was a renewed commitment to genre, even if the specific genre changed.
There was also the fictitious Keiko Suzuki, who started a new listserve, borrowing the name 7-11. On the Net, identity tricks are relatively easy to pull off and effective at destabilizing (complacent or boring) communities, and these capers imbued cyberspace with an air of mischief and unpredictability. 7-11 was dedicated to the irrational and the excessive.
The New York School is subtitled a Cultural Reckoning. It does give overdue attention to the place of dance in New York artistic life—George Balanchine, Edwin Denby, Lincoln Kirstein. It also records the impact of existentialism. Toward the end there is a lovely handling of the arrival on the scene of the Beat Generation.
Patric Dicaprio is a New York–based fashion designer and a cofounder and the creative director of Vaquera, a ready-to-wear label focused on redefining luxury fashion. Vaquera is in partnership with Comme des Garçon’s incubator program, Dover Street Market Paris, and shows collections two times a year. The label is known for its concept ...
