Seijun Suzuki

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

Amechiyo (The banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised to human). This is an Operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story (imdb)

Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars...

The film's story centers on Hanada, a.k.a. "No. 3 Killer," the third-best hit man in Japanese organized crime... (imdb)

After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory... (imdb)

A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other. (imdb)

The story follows the flight of yakuza hitman Tetsu and his younger, artistic brother Kenji after the latter kills a yakuza boss in a double cross. The pair is pursued by the yakuza and police as they head for Manchuria. They are swindled of their money before they can reach their destination and take labor jobs on a tunnel project, each falling in love with the their new boss's wife and daughter, respectively. (Wikipedia)

In Okayama in the mid-1930s, Kiroku attends high school and boards with a Catholic family whose daughter, Michiko, captures his heart. (imdb)

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.

The story involves Katsuta, a yakuza member who falls in love and is torn between giri (duty) and ninjo (humanity)

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. (letterboxd.com)

In a seaside village of Japan during the 1920s, married professor Aochi (Toshiya Fujita) meets up with old friend Nakasono (Yoshio Harada), who's now a drifter accused of murder. Aochi manages to fight off the suspicion surrounding his buddy, but complications arise when they meet bereaved geisha Koine (Naoko Otani). Nakasono is immediately smitten. Aochi is attracted, but wants to stay faithful to his wife. Yet, over time, the mind games between all three escalate in a violently sexual way.

'The inner workings of the human psyche are featured in this study of relationships between different leading characters. The action weaves around playwright Matsuzaki (Yusaku Matsuda) -- who is sleeping with Shinako (Michio Okusu), a married woman -- and his other "lover," Ine (Eriko Kasuda), a fairly corporeal spirit. The film is set in 1926, when cinema was silent -- and that era is evoked in Kagero-za.' - All Movies.com

The final film in his acclaimed Taisho trilogy, maverick filmmaker Seijun Suzuki directs his bizarre, hallucinatory tale about the tortured inner world of famed 1920s painter Yumeji Takehisa. (rotten tomatoes)

Kikuju, a yakuza, runs off to Tokyo with his master's proposed bride on the way to her wedding and marries her, leaving a few elegantly-killed corpses behind. He works for corrupt building contractors- the normal method of getting and keeping a contract is gang fights, blackmail and bribery. An assassin from his old gang is looking for him. (imdb)

A prison truck is attacked and a convict inside is murdered. The penitentiary warden on duty, Daijiro, is accused of negligence and suspended (criterion.com)

This is the story about a young female golpher and her transformation from young promising teenager, into a media sensation. Think Michelle Wie. During her rise she falls in love with her trainer, gets her own TV show, attracts a female stalker, and has to deal with the pressures that come with being in the spotlight. Funny, dark, and slightly erotically charged, a must for fans of Suzuki! (karagara)

Jo Shishido stars as Det. Tajima, a smug investigator who nabs a pair of criminal gangs with flamboyant aplomb while the police remain baffled. Suzuki treats the rather hoary plotline as an excuse for dark-humored camp, and young audiences were delighted with his irreverent approach, which made him one of the few distinctive names in the '60s assembly-line of Nikkatsu Studios. (www.surrealmoviez.info)

A young man named Sadao returns to the rich family that abandoned him as a youth to find his lost mother, only to find himself fighting against criminals.

A teenage couple turn to a life of crime and sexual experimentation.

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

Ishikawa, a newspaper journalist, unexpectedly meets Asako, a woman who used to work for his company some time ago as a phone operator. Three years ago, she accidentally heard the voice of a suspect who committed a still-unresolved homicide. Since then, the suspect's voice has remained lodged in her mind as a terrifying memory. One night, her husband invites over his colleagues, Kawai, Hamazaki, and Muraoka. She realizes that Hamazaki's voice sounds exactly the same as the unseen suspect's! (imdb)

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. One night, the bisexual Yoko tries to assult her while she's asleep. Tsuyu runs away to the house of Yoko's sex friend, Seiji. Soon, she moves to Bon, her first lover's place. (imdb)

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

A carnivalesque tale of a young student who hooks up with a down-at-heels traveling circus troupe. (Arrow Video)

The high-rising developments of the suburbs of Tokyo present ample opportunities for extortion for gangsters from a neighboring town. High-school student Jiro sets himself up as a local hero, fending off these incursions into the community, but his boisterous methods soon make him an outcast and strain his relationships with his best friend Yoshio. (Arrow Video)

Sometime in the 1910's, when young rebel Konno Tôgo is thrown out of his religious school in Kobe for brawling and fraternizing too closely with the local girls, his mother puts him under the trust of an acquaintance of hers, the principal of a provincial junior high school. Still violent, he falls in love with a local girl living in the rural town of his new school. Loosely based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon.

The plot concerns a passenger train which is stalled when a typhoon wrecks the tracks. The commuters are offloaded onto a shuttle bus, which is then taken over by a pair of sadistic gangsters. (imdb)

A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past.

The Sleeping Beast Within (1960) is a gripping crime thriller that sees a newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown. (dvdbeaver)

Two reporters of divergent morals investigate a drug ring, delving deeper into the underworld in the process. (imdb)

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

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. (imdb)

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. (imdb)

A woman is unsatisfied with her workholic husband and attracted to a man she encounters hunting in the woods. Seijun Suzuki's television pilot for Nikkatsu was his last work for the studio before getting fired and unreleased for many years.

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.

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

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

A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after double crossing them in a fixing scam. (imdb)

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

In postwar Japan, an editor visits her old Professor who is working on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was revived, only to turn into a sex fiend that terrorized a rural village in pre-modern Japan. The story begins to have uncanny resonances with things going on in the present.

Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Yang 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.

The Oedo Investigative Network investigates a mysterious fire one evening. Could it be connected to a mysterious man in an eyepatch who just came into town?

Wada Koji fights to become a boxing champion. (imdb)

A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day before the dissolution of the Yamamuro group, it was reported that the leader of the hostile organization was assassinated by someone.

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.