Posted on November 21, 2014 |
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Yajû no seishun / Youth of the Beast / Wild Youth (1963)
Action | Crime | Mystery
A tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. He soon tries to make a deal with a rival gang a starts a gang war. His real motivations are gradually revealed as we find out how this all ties in with the murder of a policeman shown at the beginning of the film.
Starring: Jô Shishido, Misako Watanabe, Tamio Kawaji, Minako Katsuki, Daizaburô Hirata
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Tags: Daizaburo Hirata, Jô Shishido, Minako Katsuki, Misako Watanabe, Seijun Suzuki, Tamio Kawaji
Posted on August 5, 2013 |
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Branded to Kill / Koroshi no rakuin (1967)
Action | Crime | Drama
Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin (chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) with a fetish for sniffing boiled rice who botches a job and ends up a target himself.
Starring: Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa, Anne Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Hiroshi Minami
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Tags: Anne Mari, Hiroshi Minami, Isao Tamagawa, Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Mariko Ogawa, Seijun Suzuki
Posted on February 17, 2012 |
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Yumeji (1991)
Drama
Yumeji is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and Kagero-za (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Masumi Miyazaki, Tamasaburo Bando
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Tags: Kenji Sawada, Masumi Miyazaki, Seijun Suzuki, Tamasaburo Bando, Tomoko Mariya
Posted on December 19, 2011 |
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Tokyo Drifter / Tôkyô nagaremono (1966)
Action | Crime | Drama
In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Phoenix Tetsu's attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang.
Starring: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Ryûji Kita, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Tags: Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Ryûji Kita, Seijun Suzuki, Tetsuya Watari, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
