The young rebel Juro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution Read More »
Tag Archives: Seijun Suzuki
Tokyo Drifter AKA Tôkyô nagaremono (1966) Seijun Suzuki, Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi
Tokyo Drifter stands with Branded to Kill as one of the best-known and most acclaimed films of Seijun Suzuki, one of Japan’s most talented maverick directors. Read More »
Voice Without a Shadow AKA Kagenaki koe (1958) Seijun Suzuki, Yôko Minamida, Hideaki Nitani, Nobuo Kaneko
Ishikawa, a newspaper journalist, unexpectedly meets Asako, a woman who used to work for his company some time ago as a phone operator. Read More »
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness AKA Hishu monogatari (1977) Seijun Suzuki, Kyôko Enami, Yoshio Harada, Masumi Okada
A female golfer who has exceeded expectations to reach the top not only has to contend with being in-demand Read More »
Our Blood Will Not Forgive (1964) Seijun Suzuki, Akira Kobayashi, Hideki Takahashi, Chieko Matsubara
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza for the death of their father. Read More »
The Incorrigible (1963) Seijun Suzuki, Ken Yamauchi, Masako Izumi, Midori Tashiro
A teenager is dismissed from school for misconduct. Read More »
Tattooed Life (1965) Seijun Suzuki, Hideki Takahashi, Masako Izumi, Akira Yamauchi
‘Tattooed Life’ begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. Read More »
Pistol Opera (2001) Seijun Suzuki, Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Hanae Kan
Did you know that there is a ranking of the best assassins of Japan? In the spirit of 1967’s Branded To Kill, also by director Suzuki Seijun, comes Pistol Opera. Read More »
The Boy Who Came Back (1958) Seijun Suzuki, Sachiko Hidari, Akira Kobayashi, Ruriko Asaoka, Drama
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past. Read More »
Yumeji (1991) Seijun Suzuki, Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Masumi Miyazaki, Drama
Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband’s ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him. Read More »