Movies: Seijun Suzuki

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's ...

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writ...

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gu...

Lupin squares off with two criminal families and Inspector Zenigata's new female patrol to track down a hoard of biblical-era treasure....

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stu...

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin....

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer....

Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-...

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife....

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence....

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune....

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways....

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition....

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group....

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother....

A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity....

A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown....

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past....

This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy. Lean, mean, and stylish as always, this tale of...

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past....