Seijun Suzuki Movies

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...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his...

A short history of the Japanese 'Pink' movie, focusing on the output of the Nikkatsu studio.

Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison.

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.

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...

Three cinephile university students have a go at making their own Super-8 film.

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...

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

Rain in Tokyo area. Two girls holed up in their tiny apartment. They go out, steal cabbages, hit a supermarket and kill a cow. The sun comes out and...

Made for in 2005, this video interview features director Seijun Suzuki and production designer Takeo Kimura. These longtime collaborators discuss the...