Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas

Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas (2002)

January 10th, 20020h 37min

Documentary, History
60%

Overview

Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918-2010), recall how they made their great masterpieces about the Yakuza underworld for the Nikkatsu film company.


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