Seijun Suzuki the absurdist, the unreal-realist, the aesthete, sadly, has passed away at 93. He was one of the finest maverick craftsmen of popular Japanese cinema, who also created paradoxical, mind bending films. He brought a WWII veteran’s eye, similar to his American alter-ego Sam Fuller, with a no-nonsense approach to dialogue, but tweaking that directness with his ‘entertainment over logic’ idea.
Over the years Suzuki directed many exciting B-Movies for Nikkatsu Studios, all superbly crafted with consummate style, but many rose above their programme picture origins. In ‘The West’ he is considered a cult filmmaker, but his job was to make popular genre B-movies for the Japanese public in the late 50s early 60s. His importance is his influence on Asian Cinema, rather on the usual suspects, Tarantino and Jarmusch in Hollywood. His influence on Takashi Kitano, Takashi Miike and some of Sion Sono’s pictures are evident, and...
Over the years Suzuki directed many exciting B-Movies for Nikkatsu Studios, all superbly crafted with consummate style, but many rose above their programme picture origins. In ‘The West’ he is considered a cult filmmaker, but his job was to make popular genre B-movies for the Japanese public in the late 50s early 60s. His importance is his influence on Asian Cinema, rather on the usual suspects, Tarantino and Jarmusch in Hollywood. His influence on Takashi Kitano, Takashi Miike and some of Sion Sono’s pictures are evident, and...
- 8/2/2020
- by Jonathan Wilson
- AsianMoviePulse
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