TOKYO NAGAREMONO

Seijun Suzuki

Suzuki Seijun (Tokyo, Japan, 1923) studied cinema at the Academy of Kamakura and began working as assistant director. He debuted in 1956 and became famous for his innovative and parodical "yakuza" films. After Branded to Kill (1967) he was thrown out of the production house he was working for, Nikkatsu, and began directing films again only in 1977, even if he made his grand return to cinema with Zigeunerweisen (1980), which bears witness to exceptional artistic talent in Japanese cinema. In 1991 he won in Berlin with Yumeji (1991) and his film Pistol Opera participated in Venice in 2001.

FILMOGRAFIA

Ore ni Kaketa Yatsura (High- Teen Yakuza, 1962), Yaju no seishun (Youth of the Beast, 1963), Hana to doto (The Flower and the Angry Waves, 1964), Shunpu den (Story of a Prostitute, 1965), Tôkyô nagaremono (Deriva a Tokyo, 1966), Kenka erejii (Elogia della Lotta, 1966), Koroshi no rakuin (La farfalla sul mirino, 1967), Hishu monogatari (Tale of Sorrow and Sadness, 1977), Ana no kiba (The Fang in the Hole, 1979), Tsigoineruwaizen (Zigeunerweisen, 1980), Kageroza (Heat-Haze Theater, 1981), Kapone oi ni naku (Capone Cries a Lot, 1985), Yumeji (1991), Kekkon (1993), Pisutoru opera (Pistol Opera, 2001), Operetta tanukigoten (Princess Raccon, 2005).