Seijun Sezuki

[mixed]

The colours, the obscure camera angles, the puff cheeked hitmen, the ultimate pop art director! His films are beautiful to look at and are very entertaining.

[criterionmaster]

TONS of his films have Criterion DVD's so I will be checking them out. Also my friend has Branded to Kill. Are there anyones besides that, that you recommend?

[mixed]

I prefer tokyo drifter to branded to kill. Much funner and exquisitely colorful cinematography.

[captainofbeef]

I can't wait to buy Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter! They look so amazing

[kiddo]

Tokyo Drifter was just bad. Utterly poor editing and confusing plot. Some nice potography, but nothing more.

[mixed]

The plot isn't so confusing
Also the strange disconnected editing style is just a stylistic technique, even Kitano does it a little bit in violent cop and boiling point. Its just something you'lkl like or not. Gotta love the theme tune to!

[criterionmaster]

Just got done with Tokyo Drifter and Suzuki was able to pull off what so many directors have failed, creating a great film with all style and very little plot. I just loved the film and his style. The main theme is amazing to the film as well. I can't wait to see more from this man.

[ie]

(Oh, hey, sorry about the necroposting, but, you know, yeah..)


Well, Suzuki essentially did what most people in his position would not have done.

Instead of merely just sticking to his job and just doing what he was told to do, he went all out. Remember, he worked for essentially a pulp movie factory. As I recall, they had something like 40 directors all making B-movies. Quantity over quality big time. Suzuki would get stuck with basically this flat and useless script and he had to make a movie out of it.

Well, instead of being content with just making a plain old movie that not even Japanese movie buffs might not care about, he just experimented and went crazy with his movies. Like the story goes (on the back of the Criterion DVD) with Branded to Kill: Suzuki, you better straighten up and make us a hit or you're outta here. So, he made Branded to Kill, and they fire him.


I respect Tokyo Drifter and Branded to Kill well enough, they just didn't entertain me as much as they probably entertain most people. I guess not every movie entertains me like it should.

[ie]

I figured we'd better get a picture of the Colonel in here, so I grabbed one of my screenshots from an interview he did.




I just saw Fighting Elegy, and my opinions are still the same. Colonel Suzuki doesn't impress me all that much, although I don't hate his movies or anything.


1.) Tokyo Drifter
2.) Fighting Elegy
3.) Branded to Kill

They're all 7/10s in my book.