Film di Seijun Suzuki

Yumeji

陽炎座

Un drammaturgo inquieto si ritrova invischiato in una relazione enigmatica con una donna misteriosa, incontrata in un quartiere di Tokyo che sembra esistere fuori dal tempo. Tra teatri, locande, strade notturne e figure che appaiono e scompaiono come miraggi, la realtà inizia a perdere consistenza. L’amore diventa un passaggio pericoloso, un varco verso un mondo dominato da illusioni, spiriti e desideri irrisolti, dove nulla è stabile e ogni incontro potrebbe essere l’ultimo.

神獣の爪

Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Tang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious claw marks across his face. A detective takes up the case, and uncovers secrets dating back to war crimes committed during Japan’s invasion of China in WWII.

Melodie zigane

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.

穴の牙

A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.

悲愁物語

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

ミイラ の 恋

In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was revived and who, centuries later, turned into a sex demon who terrorized a village in pre-modern Japan.

Aisaikun konban wa: Aru kettou

A delirious and psychedelic TV short by Suzuki.

La farfalla sul mirino

Il killer Hanada è stato "condannato a morte" dal suo capo Yabuhara, che affida l'esecuzione prima alla stessa moglie di Harada, poi alla bella Misako. Quest'ultima però si innamora del suo bersaglio, e la situazione si complica...

Elegia della lotta

Okoyama, 1935. Il timido Kiroku è innamorato della dolce Michiko ma cerca la via dei "veri uomini" entrando in una banda di teppisti che ripudia ogni svenevolezza. La rabbia lo porta a distinguersi nell'uso della forza e della prepotenza, in un Giappone che sta perdendo i propri punti di riferimento, ma l'amore per Michiko continua a tormentarlo.

Deriva a Tokyo - Il vagabondo di Tokyo

Tetsu è stato uno yazuka, ma ora sta rigando dritto: quando però una gang rivale minaccia di scatenare una nuova guerra per il predominio sul territorio, lui non potrà che schierarsi con il vecchio boss...

河内カルメン

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.

刺青一代

悪太郎伝　悪い星の下でも

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a Japanese spirit of manliness he wins the day.

Storia di una prostituta

Seconda guerra mondiale: abbandonata dall'amato, la prostituta Harumi si introduce in un bordello di un avamposto militare. Entra nelle grazie del comando cinese, ma si innamora di Mikami e intreccia con lui una relazione clandestina. La tragedia è dietro l'angolo.

俺たちの血が許さない

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Le professioniste dell'amore

È la tragica e disperata storia di Maya, diciassettenne giapponese che la miseria della guerra ha avviato alla prostituzione, come mille altre ragazze. In questo mondo violento e dominato da borsaneristi e boss perversi e crudeli, Maya tenta di riscattarsi con un tragico amore.

I fiori e le onde furiose

Innamorato della donna promessa sposa al suo capo, Kikuji fugge con lei a Tokyo, dove trova lavoro come operaio edile, ma sul capo della coppia pende una sentenza di morte... Tra i tanti B-movie di genere yakuza girati dal regista, questo spicca per le connotazioni sociali, mostrando un sistema di appalti pubblici dominato dalla corruzione con i lavoratori costretti a scontrarsi per gli interessi della criminalità organizzata. Visivamente ammaliante per l'uso del colore, contiene sequenze d'impatto e personaggi iconici come quello del killer sardonico e della geisha follemente innamorata.

Il vagabondo del Kanto

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.

悪太郎

Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.

La giovinezza di una belva umana

Joe Shishido interpreta un ragazzo dal temperamento difficile reclutato da un boss della yakuza. Quest’ultimo tenta un accordo con una gang rivale, ma le sue vere motivazioni verranno presto svelate.

Ufficio investigativo 23: Crepate Bastardi!

Tajima è un investigatore privato responsabile della sua stessa compagnia, Detective Bureau 2-3. Quando le bande criminali in guerra vanno in mare rubando munizioni militari statunitensi, Tajima interviene per fermare ciò che la polizia non può.

俺に賭けた奴ら

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens.

ハイティーンやくざ

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

百万弗を叩き出せ

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

海峡、血に染めて

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."

峠を渡る若い風

On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.

散弾銃の男

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

無鉄砲大将

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

東京騎士隊

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

くたばれ愚連隊

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 youth-gone-wild is both vibrant and touching. Suzuki contrasts tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernism. Also released under the title "Go To Hell, Hoodlums!", this is a melodrama as colorful, shocking, and exhilarating as one would come to expect from Japan's master filmmaker.

すべてが狂ってる

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.

密航０ライン

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?

The Sleeping Beast Within

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

Assalto al blindato

Un cecchino uccide due prigionieri a bordo in un furgone della polizia. Il poliziotto a guardia del furgone, Tamon, viene sospeso per sei mesi. Deciso a scoprire la verità Tamon inizia ad investigare sui motivi di questo duplice omicidio, mentre attorno a lui il pericolo sembra addensarsi sempre di più.

素ッ裸の年令

The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.

暗黒の旅券

A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer.

らぶれたあ

A nightclub manager is in love with his pianist. However, she has a ranger boyfriend who's been permanently stationed in the mountain wilderness. Their only communication is by letter. As time passes the correspondence slows to a trickle. Then nothing. The manager persuades the girl to visit the boy. She does, but she's totally unprepared for her bizarre discovery.

影なき声

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.

青い乳房

A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe Misako). However, he doesn't realize that his fellow blackmailers have their eyes on his girlfriend next.

踏みはずした春

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

Underworld Beauty

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones.

裸女と拳銃

A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed for a murder he didn't commit.

８時間の恐怖

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

浮草の宿

Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison.

悪魔の街

A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending. A patch-work production.

海の純情

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.

港の乾杯　勝利をわが手に

A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after double crossing them in a fixing scam. Seijun Suzuki's directorial debut.