Seijun Suzuki born Seitaro Suzuki 24 May 1923 13 February 2017 was a Japanese filmmaker actor and screenwriter His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style irreverent humour nihilistic cool and entertainmentoverlogic sensibility He made 40 predominately Bmovies 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 his magnum opus Branded to Kill 1967 starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that As an independent filmmaker he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy Zigeunerweisen 1980 Kageroza 1981 and Yumeji 1991 His films remained widely unknown outside of Japan until a series of theatrical retrospectives beginning in the mid 1980s home video releases of key films such as Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter in the late 1990s and tributes by such acclaimed filmmakers as Jim Jarmusch Takeshi Kitano Wong Karwai and Quentin Tarantino signaled his international discovery Suzuki has continued making films albeit sporadically In Japan he is more commonly recognized as an actor for his numerous roles in Japanese films and television He passed away on February 13th 2017 Description above from the Wikipedia article Seijun Suzuki licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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