A tragic love story set in a mountain village in the Showa era, waiting for a fiancé who died in the war, but it is more than that. It breaks through the existing concept of a film with a beginning, middle, and end, and like Fellini or Godard... Hara Masato's cosmic film philosophy on the theme of "human history and media" unfolds like a symphony.
Gazen
Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead Ovreneli Vreneligare was just a little boy, he fell in love in the park. Sharing a juice box with the stunningly gorgeous Milocrorze, he took her home to his cat, Verandola Gorgonzola, and made her his girlfriend until the fickle beauty abandoned him, and he covered the hole in his heart with a pot lid he found lying on the ground. This is only the beginning of his story but it’s not the end of his heartbreak. MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY is a candy-flavored anthology of hopeless l’amour, and it has many victims.
映画学校の学院長・木室創は、才能ある一人の学生・村上大輔のことが気になっていた。ある日、大輔は戦没画学生の記録を目にし、木室の前から消息を絶ってしまう。一方、木室の自宅では妻のエミ子が戦争で心の傷を負ったままふさぎ込んでいた。そんなとき、木室に精神病院に入院中の大輔からの手紙が届く。
A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The brilliantly colored images have an avant-garde charm while hiding the sadness of the war, and will grab the viewer's heart.
Ryuun Naito
Jun, a 16-year-old teen, refuses to stand while the national anthem is being played at his graduation ceremony. This event will totally change his life, as he involuntarily becomes the new hero of a rebel anti-system youth. Singer Muy's pop music and his friend, Nozomi, with whom he shares his sadness and hatred for the society that surrounds them, help him bear his terrible loneliness.
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
Made for in 2005, this video interview features director Seijun Suzuki and production designer Takeo Kimura. These longtime collaborators discuss the making of GATE OF FLESH.
Executive Producer
狸と人は恋に落ちてはならないといわれている中、唐の国から狸御殿に招かれた狸姫（チャン・ツィイー）とがらさ城城主の世継ぎ・雨千代（オダギリジョー）はひと目で恋に落ちてしまう。
Director
狸と人は恋に落ちてはならないといわれている中、唐の国から狸御殿に招かれた狸姫（チャン・ツィイー）とがらさ城城主の世継ぎ・雨千代（オダギリジョー）はひと目で恋に落ちてしまう。
When a man who as a student wanted to burn down his school meets a man years later, his new friend falls in love with the former female class-mate who herself is in love with the would-be arsonist.
Old Man's Ghost
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.
Himself - Director / Screenwriter
In the sixties, director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017) was the great innovator of Japanese cinema. Extremely creative and eccentric, his narrative world is strongly influenced by Kabuki theater. His testimony crosses with that of his collaborator and close friend, artistic director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918–2010). Between the two of them, they remember how they made their great masterpieces about the Yakuza underworld for the Nikkatsu film company.
Director
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
A humanity drama set in Asakusa. Natsumi, a third-year high school student, moved to Tokyo when his grandmother died. Haruka, the flower-shaped stripper who is the mother, cannot hide the dreadfulness from the sudden appearance of her daughter. Living together is always addicted, Natsumi refuses her mother. On the other hand, Haruka is faced with a lover's debt problem.
大学時代に知り合い、結婚した子どものいない夫婦、三津子と忠春。ひたすら仕事に打ち込む忠春とそれを家庭でけなげに支える三津子。せつないまでに夫を愛するもののすれ違いを感じ始めた彼女の想いは毎夜日記に綴られていった。そんなある日、三津子は高校時代の友人・久美と12年ぶりに再会する。彼女と夫・俊彦との気ままな生活は、三津子たちとはあまりにも対照的だった…。
Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle buried deep in the boy’s flesh where it should not be. During the night the head is removed from the body and stolen, Miyako begins a desperate search for it so she can finish her work. Miyako search finds her encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, incest, psychopathic schizophrenics as well as some very dark secrets from here own past.
A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day before the dissolution of the Yamamuro group, it is reported that the leader of the hostile organization was assassinated by someone.
Ye Xiaodan
東京都新宿区歌舞伎町。日本一の歓楽街として知られる街は今や、中国人たちが勢力争いを繰り広げる街と化していた。日本と台湾のハーフ・劉健一は、歌舞伎町で故買屋をしながら中国人の裏社会を器用に渡り歩いていた。そんなある日、かつての仕事のパートナー・呉富春が歌舞伎町に現れたと聞かされる。
Old Man
Fu and Suzu are two pretty anarchist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a journey to visit the tomb of a small pig by name Pupu. On the way, they meet Suzu's ex-lover, a gay couple, and a golf player; always getting in trouble. But whenever trouble comes, 'Trunk Man' the hero appears to save them.
A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.
Grandpa
An exciting 'psychic movie' starring Kanako Enomoto, adapted from the manga series by Yukio Tamai. Police detectives searching for clues related to a serial murder case seek out help from high schooler Yurika, who possesses latent split personality psychic abilities. The mystery deepens once Yurika is brought face-to-face with the crime scenes.
A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, but it was an operation to separate what had been taken into another body. The second in a series depicting the episode of the birth of Pinoko.
元老中・水野忠邦と組んだ大奥・姉小路一派は、お家乗っ取りのため、生後すぐ捨てられたという、徳川家定の双子の兄弟を捜していた。一方、それを知った家定の母は、大奥掃除人の四郎に問題の子の発見と始末を命じる。そんな折、老浮世絵師・葛飾北斎が謎の死を遂げ、犯人を捜す主水は、捜査の中で北斎が最後に描いた似顔絵とそっくりな少女・捨蔵を発見する。実は、彼女こそが大奥の二派が血眼で捜す将軍家の落とし種だった。
Hirata's Grandfather
A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.
Supervising Art Director
1977年から1980年に放送された『ルパン三世 (TV第2シリーズ)』（以下、『TV第2シリーズ』）第155話（最終話）のサブタイトル。
Director
An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.
Writer
A semi-autobiographical film about a young man from Tokyo who moves to Hirosaki in the early Shōwa era. A straight-to-video production made for the Hirosaki Senior High School Alumni Association that also incorporates footage from contemporary Hirosaki, and features cameos by regular Suzuki performers like Tamagawa Isao and Nogawa Yumiko.
Director
A semi-autobiographical film about a young man from Tokyo who moves to Hirosaki in the early Shōwa era. A straight-to-video production made for the Hirosaki Senior High School Alumni Association that also incorporates footage from contemporary Hirosaki, and features cameos by regular Suzuki performers like Tamagawa Isao and Nogawa Yumiko.
Director
毎夜悪夢にうなされる夢二。そんな中、夢二は駆け落ち相手の彦乃と落ち合うべく金沢近郊の湖畔へとやって来る。だが、彦乃は現われない。そして、静かな村に銃声が鳴り響く。旅館の女将は、鬼松という男が妻と妻を寝取った男・脇屋を殺し山へ逃げ込んだため、山狩りをしているのだと教える。一方湖では、殺された脇屋の妻・巴代が湖面にボートを浮かべ夫の死体が浮かび上がってくるのを待ち続けていた。その姿を目にした夢二は次第に巴代の虜になっていく。
Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai
Vet
Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named Marilyn. Shiro is portrayed by the real-life Shiro.
Director
ニューヨークの街角にある店に、一人の老婆が入ってきた。その店は、怪物のマスクを着用して夜通し騒ぎまくるナイトクラブ。その老婆、ロゼッタと顔なじみのルパンは、ゴリラに扮して上機嫌。だが、そこに届いた宅急便の中から銭形警部が現れ、ルパンはオートバイに乗って逃走する。それを追う銭形警部との激しいバイク逃走劇は、ブロードウェイの巨大な看板へと舞台を移していく。だが、その一部始終を苦々しく見つめている男達がいた。ニューヨークを牛耳るマフィアのボス、マルチアーノと若頭のコワルスキーだった。
Director
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.
Director
A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past.
Man in Bar(飲み屋の男)
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.
Screenplay
The Oedo Investigative Network investigates a mysterious fire one evening. Could it be connected to a mysterious man in an eyepatch who just came into town?
Director
The Oedo Investigative Network investigates a mysterious fire one evening. Could it be connected to a mysterious man in an eyepatch who just came into town?
Director
A man looking to transplant cherry blossoms along the countryside encounters a blind woman who accompanies him for the journey.
Director
たび重なる偶然から知り合った品子という謎の美女の誘いで現世ともあの世ともつかぬ世界で翻弄される劇作家の姿を描く。
A light-hearted portrayal of three strange days in the life of a high school girl who is told she will die in three days. The best entertainment of student films, which became a legend. Many students aspired to film after seeing this film and many others gave up directing at the time.
Idea
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwara district. He takes her to an inn to gove birth, and stays on a few days as she recovers, but becomes fascinated with the strange people he meets there, particularly the owner, who visits a house in his courtyard every day to talk and give food to his mother. He says she is very sick and can't leave bed, but no one else has ever been inside or seen her.
Director
Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Yang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious claw marks across his face. A detective takes up the case, and uncovers secrets dating back to war crimes committed during Japan’s invasion of China in WWII.
Director
旅に出た、士官学校教授の青地豊二郎と友人の中砂糺。その途中、彼らは弟の葬式に出席してきたという芸者の小稲と出会う。それから1年、中砂から結婚の報を受けた青地は、彼の家を訪ねることに。だが、妻だという園が小稲とうり二つであることに驚かされる。やがて、園は生まれたばかりの娘を残して逝去。中砂の様子を見に行く青地だが、今度は小稲が乳母として娘を抱いていることに驚く。
Director
A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.
Director
A model must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
Himself
Three cinephile university students have a go at making their own Super-8 film.
Director
In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was revived and who, centuries later, turned into a sex demon who terrorized a village in pre-modern Japan.
Director
A delirious and psychedelic TV short by Suzuki.
Screenplay
飯の炊けた匂いが好きな殺し屋ナンバー3、花田は殺しの依頼を遂行し損ねて逆に組織から追われるハメになるのだったが…。
Director
飯の炊けた匂いが好きな殺し屋ナンバー3、花田は殺しの依頼を遂行し損ねて逆に組織から追われるハメになるのだったが…。
Director
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
Director
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.
Director
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.
Director
‘Tattooed Life' begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we're reminded that it's the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won't go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not?
Director
やくざ、上級生、くそ喰らえ！女なんていちころや！大胆奔放、青春を生きるなんでもこいの悪たれ野郎！昭和初期、大阪南部に生まれ育った鈴木重吉は、中学校の風紀委委員からクラスメイトが滅茶苦茶な制裁を加えられたことに怒りを爆発させる...。
Director
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 sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
Director
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
Director
米軍占領下にある終戦後の東京。焼け跡ビルを根城にするおせんを筆頭とした街娼の集団は、闇市を闊歩していた。唯一の肉親だった兄を病で亡くし、外国兵に強姦された少女マヤはおせんたちの仲間になることを決意するが、グループには厳しい「掟」があり…。
Director
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant.
Director
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
Director
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
Director
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
Director
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
Director
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens.
Director
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
Director
A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.
Director
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."
Director
On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.
Director
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
Director
高校の空手部員・英次は正義感に燃える好青年。愚連隊に対抗するため、友人たちを誘い街をパトロールしていた。これを快く思わない新界興業は、乾分のトメやゲンに嫌がらせをはじめるが...。和田浩治扮する正義に燃える学生が、霧笛のの空手で街の愚連隊をなぎ倒す娯楽アクション巨篇。
Director
A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.
Director
This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy. Lean, mean, and stylish as always, this tale of youth-gone-wild is both vibrant and touching. Suzuki contrasts tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernism. Also released under the title "Go To Hell, Hoodlums!", this is a melodrama as colorful, shocking, and exhilarating as one would come to expect from Japan's master filmmaker.
Director
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man.
Director
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
Director
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequences.
Director
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 own investigation into the murders. Who were the victims, who are their relatives and girlfriends, who else was on the van that night? As he doggedly investigates, others die, coincidences occur, and several leads take him to the Hamaju Agency, which may be supplying call girls. Its owner is in jail, his daughter, the enigmatic Yuko, keeps turning up where Tamon goes. Tamon believes he can awaken good in people, but has he met his match? Will he solve the murders or be the next victim? And who is Akiba?
Writer
The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.
Director
The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.
Director
A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer in this dark and beautiful noir from master Seijun Suzuki.
Director
A nightclub manager is in love with his pianist. However, she has a ranger boyfriend who's been permanently stationed in the mountain wilderness. Their only communication is by letter. As time passes the correspondence slows to a trickle. Then nothing. The manager persuades the girl to visit the boy. She does, but she's totally unprepared for her bizarre discovery.
Director
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.
Director
A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe Misako). However, he doesn't realize that his fellow blackmailers have their eyes on his girlfriend next.
Director
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
Director
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones. Replete with film noir style, "Underworld Beauty" is one of Suzuki's best nods to the American gangster genre.
Director
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed for a murder he didn't commit.
Director
山間の小駅。この駅の灯だけが、真暗闇に侘しく光っていた。ホームには、水害で不通になった列車が立往生。午前二時を指す時計の掛かった駅の待合室には、傲慢そうな重役夫妻、セールスマン、男女学生、オンリーさんの夏子、老夫婦、小粋な三十女と愛人、家出した田舎娘など足止めをくった乗客でごった返していた。この騒ぎから取り残されたように静かに佇む乳呑み児を抱いた時枝の側には、一本の手錠でつながれた刑事と殺人犯・森が立っていた。一同はバスで次の駅まで出ることになったが、いよいよ出発という時「銀行を襲撃して現金二千万円を奪った二人組のギャングが、この方面に立ち廻った形跡がある」という悪い知らせが入った。 動揺した乗客は次々とバスを降り、十四名を乗せたボロボロのバスが暗夜の中を出発した。ギャングと山崩れの恐怖に怯える夜が明けると、一同には明るさが戻ったが、時技と森だけは暗い表情を崩さなかった。行く手には、とうてい渡れそうもない朽ち果てた橋。しかしバリバリと音をたてながら、バスは危うくも橋を渡りきった。さらにバスが進むと、前方に青年が飛び出してきた。バスに乗り込んで来た二人連は、大きなボストンバックを提げていたー。
Director
Director
A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending. A patch-work production.
Director
A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
Screenplay
Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his gold bullion somewhere.
Director
A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after double crossing them in a fixing scam. Seijun Suzuki's directorial debut.
Assistant Director
Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.
Screenplay
Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who runs an illegal gun trade.
Assistant Director
A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.
Screenplay
A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.
Assistant Director
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.
self
A short history of the Japanese 'Pink' movie, focusing on the output of the Nikkatsu studio.
