Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas (2002)
• January 10th, 2002 • 0h 37min
Documentary, History
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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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