Direction: Seijun Suzuki

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kenji Sawada · Tomoko Mariya · Masumi Miyazaki · Tamasaburo Bando

Plot Semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishô Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and Kagero-za (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Yumiko Nogawa · Isao Tamagawa · Shoichi Ozawa

Plot Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Akira Yamauchi · Hiroko Ito · Masako Izumi

Plot After his final job as a yakuza hit man, Tetsu, the Silver Fox, is attacked by his latest target's henchmen. Coming to his rescue is Kenji, Tetsu's younger, peaceful brother....

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Ichiro Kijima · Misako Watanabe · Akiji Kobayashi

Plot When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. Youth of the Beast (Yaju no Seishun) was a breakthrough for director Seijun Suzuki, introducing...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Yusuke Kawazu · Junko Asano · Takeshi Katô

Plot High schooler Nanbu Kiroku yearns for the prim, Catholic Michiko, but her only desire is to reform Kiroku's sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, Kiroku channels his unsatisfied lust into the only...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Mariko Ogawa · Koji Nambara · Anne Mari

Plot The film's story centers on Hanada, a.k.a. "No. 3 Killer," the third-best hit man in Japanese organized crime. Near the top of his game, his fortunes change when he encounters...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hiroyuki Nagato · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Shoichi Ozawa · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot A businessman returns from an extended trip, but something seems off. Criminal operations and religious cults come into play, while the man's daughter and her journalist boyfriend race to find...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Hideaki Nitani · Ryuji Kita

Plot Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars, Tetsu must become a drifter to keep...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Satako Kasai · Yumiko Nogawa · Kayo Matsuo

Plot In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post? World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Reiko Sasamori · Naomi Hoshi · Tamio Kawaji

Plot Assigned a standard Yakuza film in the hardboiled vein, director Seijun Suzuki and leading man Jo Shishido used this film to flip the Japanese gangster film genre on its ear....

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Michiyo Oguso · Mariko Kaga · Katsuo Nakamura

Plot The fever-dream follow-up to his acclaimed "Zigeunerweisen", the enigmatically erotic "Kagero-Za" is the second film in Seijun Suzuki's Taishô Trilogy -- this time set in the disjointed cityscapes and surrounding...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Tomoko Naraoka · Yoshiko Nezu · Sayuri Yoshinaga

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Chieko Matsubara · Daizaburo Hirata · Hiroko Ito

Plot Yakuza icon Akira Kobayashi ("Bloody Territories") is boss Izu's bodyguard Katsuta, who finds himself at the center of a violent power play by the greedy rival boss Yoshida. When Katsuta...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Hideaki Esumi · Akiyoshi Fukae · Tamio Kawaji

Plot A riotous, bloody, all-action historical epic, set in 19th Century Tokyo. Akira Kobayashi (Kanto Wanderer) stars as a coal-miner who leads a rebellion against a vicious tyrant, played by Suzuki...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Michitaro Mizushima · Mari Shiraki · Shinsuke Ashida · Toru Abe

Plot Mari Shiraki (Rajo To Kenju) stars as a gangster's girlfriend who is pushed into joining his diamond-smuggling operation.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Naoko Otani · Toshiya Fujita · Michiyo Oguso

Plot Vacationing in a small seaside village, Aochi, a professor of German, runs into Nakasago, a former colleague turned nomad. Nakasago is being pursued by an angry mob for allegedly seducing...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Michitaro Mizushima · Mari Shiraki · Misako Watanabe · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot A sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended for six months; he's Tamon, an upright, modest man. He begins his...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Zhang Ziyi · Jô Odagiri · Hiroko Yakushimaru · Mikijiro Hira

Plot Amechiyo (The banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised to human). This is an Operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kyôko Enami · Yoshio Harada · Masumi Okada · Shûji Sano

Plot After a 10 years exile from film direction, Seijun Suzuki returned with this bizarre story of a young sportswoman being victimized by big business corporation, the media and an envious...

Direction Seijun Suzuki · Shigetsugu Yoshida

Plot In New York City, several stone tablets have been unearthed that tell a tale about the Gold of Babylon. 2 Mafia families are after it as well as Lupin the...