List of the best Seijun Suzuki movies: Branded to Kill(1967), Tokyo Drifter(1966), Yumeji(1991), Fighting Elegy(1966), Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards(1963) ... ...
Action
Japan
1967
91 Minutes
Director
Jo Shishido Mariko Ogawa Kôji Nanbara Mari Annu Isao Tamagawa
After a badly done assignment, a hitman finds himself in conflict with his organisation, and one mysterious and dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.
Action, Crime, Drama
Japan
1966
83 Minutes
Director
Tetsuya Watari Chieko Matsubara Ryuji Kita Hideaki Nitani Tamio Kawaji Tsuyoshi Yoshida Eimei Esumi Eiji Gô Isao Tamagawa Michio Hino Tomoko Hamakawa
crime boss rival thug assassin young woman thrilling suspenseful eerie tokyo inner city countryside gang war betrayal murder plot crime pursuit rivalry revenge 1960s
After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.
Biography
Japan
1991
128 Minutes
Director
Kenji Sawada Tomoko Mariya Masumi Miyazaki Tamasaburo Bando Yoshio Harada Kazuhiko Hasegawa Leona Hirota
Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him.
Action
Japan
1966
86 Minutes
Director
Hideki Takahashi Junko Asano Yusuke Kawazu Takeshi Kato Isao Tamagawa Kayo Matsuo Mitsuo Kataoka Chikako Miyagi Keisuke Noro Seijiro Onda Hiroshi Midorikawa
During the 1930s, a teenager yearns for a Catholic girl, whose only desire is to reform his sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, the young man channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available: savage, crazed violence.
Crime, Drama, Action
Japan
1963
89 Minutes
Director
Jo Shishido Tamio Kawaji Yûko Kusunoki Kotoe Hatsui Nobuo Kaneko Reiko Sasamori Naomi Hoshi
Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Suzuki transforms a colorful pot-boiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed.