Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema /

Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema / / William Carroll.

In 1968, Suzuki Seijun—a low-budget genre filmmaker known for movies including Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter, and Youth of the Beast—was unceremoniously fired by Nikkatsu Studios. Soon to be known as the “Suzuki Seijun Incident,” his dismissal became a cause for leftist student protestors and a bur...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Carroll, William,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 31 b&w film stills
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Names, Images, and Translations
  • Introduction: Why Suzuki Seijun?
  • 1. 1968 and the Suzuki Seijun Incident
  • 2. Suzuki Seijun and the Impossibility of Cinema
  • 3. Postwar Japanese Genre Filmmaking and the Nikkatsu Action Sylistic Idiom
  • 4. The Emergence of the Seijunesque
  • 5. The Authorial Voice of Suzuki Seijun
  • Coda
  • Appendix 1. Filmography
  • Appendix 2. Unfilmed Projects
  • Appendix 3. Guryū Hachirō Extended Filmography
  • Appendix 4. Suzuki Seijun as Assistant Director
  • Appendix 5. Commercials Directed by Suzuki Seijun
  • Appendix 6. Books Written by Suzuki Seijun
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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