Celebrity Biographies
Seijun suzuki
Seijun Suzuki, a teacher for other directors such as Quentin Tarantino, passed away on February 13, 2017 from lung disease. “I have an immoderate taste for provocation,” said the director, who filled his cinema with prostitutes and outcasts.
Born on May 24, 1923, in Tokyo, Sukuzi graduated from the Japanese capital’s Business School in 1941. Shortly afterward, he served in the Navy during World War II, when his ship was sunk by an American submarine.
At the end of the war, he directed up to 40 B series films for the Nikkatsu film studio. Almost all of them belonged to the yakuza genre, around organized crime and various gangsters such as The Youth of the Beast (1963), one of his best-known titles. The company ended up firing him for his increasingly surreal films, but he successfully sued. This had the consequence that they put him on the black list of the other producers.
For this reason, Seijun Suzuki took ten years to return to shoot another film, the Shochiku company. His last film was Princess Raccoon -2004-, which was presented out of competition at Cannes. His work has been praised by numerous directors, including Damien Chazelle , who on a visit to Tokyo to promote La La Land raved about the director.