Best movies of Seijun Suzuki

Actors : Makiko Esumi, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Hanae Kan, Masatoshi Nagase,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

The No. 3 assassin of Japan is given the chance to usurp No. 1 and take their place.

Actors : Mariko Ogawa, Annu Mari, Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, putting him into conflict with his treacherous wife, with a mysterious woman eager for death and with the phantom-like hit-man known only as Number One.

Actors : Hideaki Nitani, Tetsuya Watari, Tamio Kawaji, Chieko Matsubara,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.

Actors : Misako Watanabe, Minako Katsuki, Tamio Kawaji, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.

Actors : Kôji Wada, Yumiko Nogawa, Tomiko Ishii, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend the abandoned building we call home, and...

Actors : Isao Tamagawa, Yumiko Nogawa, Tamio Kawaji, Shôichi Ozawa,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

Actors : Yûsuke Kawazu, Junko Asano, Chikako Miyagi, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

In Okayama in the mid-1930s, Kiroku attends high school and boards with a Catholic family whose daughter, Michiko, captures his heart. He must, however, hide his ardor and other aspects of ...

Actors : Akaji Maro, Kisako Makishi, Yoshio Harada, Naoko Ôtani,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

Actors : Hiroko Yakushimaru, Joe Odagiri, Ziyi Zhang, Mikijirô Hira,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

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 story.

Actors : Akira Yamauchi, Masako Izumi, Hideki Takahashi, Yuji Kodaka,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Actors : Shinsuke Ashida, Misako Watanabe, Mari Shiraki, Michitarô Mizushima,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A prison truck is assaulted and the two convicts inside are murdered. The prison guard on duty gets suspended for negligence and takes it upon himself to track down the killers.

Actors : Nobuo Kaneko, Tamio Kawaji, Reiko Sassamori, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Suzuki transforms a colorful pot-boiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tamio Kawaji, Shinako Nakagawa, Yoshiko Nezu,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

The young rebel Juro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.

Actors : Shûji Sano, Yoshio Harada, Kyôko Enami, Masumi Okada,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A female golfer who has exceeded expectations to reach the top not only has to contend with being in-demand, but also with the men in her life, her neigbours, her brother and not to mention a stalker.

Actors : Masumi Miyazaki, Tomoko Mariya, Kenji Sawada, Tamasaburô Bandô,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

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.

Actors : Daisaburô Hirata, Hiroko Itô, Chieko Matsubara, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

Three schoolgirls are infatuated with a yakuza, Katsuta, of the Izu Clan. They meet another yakuza, `Diamond` Fuyu, of the rival Yoshida clan. As he gets a tattoo, two of the girls become ...

Actors : Michiyo Ohkusu, Mariko Kaga, Katsuo Nakamura, Yûsaku Matsuda,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Actors : Naoko Kubo, Tamio Kawaji, Chieko Matsubara, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

Another subversion of audience expectations has Kobayashi acting somewhat cowardly in the snow-bound final showdown, an unheard-of trait in a ninkyô yakuza hero. Also with Tamio Kawaji as a sword-wielding assassin in Zero-cape-and -hat(!)

Actors : Makoto Fujita, Eizô Kitamura, Junko Inagawa, Yoshio Harada,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.

Actors : Mayumi Shimizu, Kôji Wada, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin Morikawa,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A carnivalesque tale of a young student who hooks up with a down-at-heels traveling circus troupe.