Carlotta Films is set to co-produce “Twist & Shoot Mister Suzuki,” an ambitious new documentary on Japanese cult auteur Seijun Suzuki, directed by Yves Montmayeur (“Sangre del Toro”). The leading ...

There’s a meme that circulates regularly among cinephilic social media accounts in which Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki appears to declare, “I make movies that make no sense and make no money.” I ...

Fans of Japanese B-cinema and yakuza films have long known of Seijun Suzuki’s cult status both in Japan and overseas here in America. But availability of his films have been limited to his most ...

Filmmaker Seijun Suzuki, whose blend of pop-art, noir crime and peculiar cool is credited with inspiring directors from John Woo and Quentin Tarantino to Jim Jarmusch, has died. These days, Suzuki's ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Celebrating 100 years of iconoclast director Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), a ...

The crime movie belongs to a genre that has been constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed essentially since cinema began. In that canon, one of the most unique entries has to be Seijun Suzuki's ...

Noted Japanese film director Seijun Suzuki recently debuted his fabled "Taisho Trilogy" at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center as part of an Asian film festival. The 12-year project ...

Seijun Suzuki knew how to work fast and cheap. As a contract director for Japan’s Nikkatsu studio in the 1950s and ’60s, Suzuki cranked out yakuza thrillers, juvenile-delinquent melodramas, pop ...

These days, Suzuki's Branded to Kill is widely seen as a masterpiece; when he made the absurdist thriller in 1967, he was fired. Filmmaker Seijun Suzuki, whose blend of pop-art, noir crime and ...