🕵🏻‍♀️ Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! / 探偵事務所２３ くたばれ悪党ども (1963)

📽️ Seijun Suzuki
🎭 Joe Shishido, Reiko Sasamori, Tamio Kawachi
💬 Maverick detective Tajima infiltrates a gang to expose their shady deals - and wisecracks/sings/dances his way into a whole lot of trouble!

#nowwatching #japanesecinema #japanesefilm #cinemastodon #seijunsuzuki #joeshishido

@a0dbxza Wow, Seijun Suzuki's Kagero-za was even more of a puzzle box than Zigeunerweisen. A beautiful movie, though. A dream within a play within a movie? @tagomago

#SeijunSuzuki #CriterionChannel #JapaneseCinema #Kageroza

@a0dbxza Stopping half way through Zigeunerweisen to take a breather for the night. Yowza, this thing out Lynches Twin Peaks, 10 years before!

#SeijunSuzuki #Zigeunerweisen #criterionchannel @tagomago

Watched Seijun Suzuki’s Zigeunerweisen (dir. Seijun Suzuki, 1980), a gorgeously-shot, rather deranged historical drama with lots of enigmatic tropes: a kinship of opposites, romantic obsessions and doppelgängers, and small inexplicable twists in fate and character relationships.

I’ve included a few stills, plus a sketch I did from one of them.
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#Zigeunerweisen #SeijunSuzuki #cinemastodon #cinephile #movies #film #MastoArt

🆕🔝 5 Films to Explore... Suzuki Seijun

To mark the 100th birthday of the inventive director, here are five films to dive into his unique cinematic world - from colourful comedies to psychedelic noirs, all with that very special Suzuki touch!

https://gamblersanddrifters.com/2023/05/24/5-films-to-explore-suzuki-seijun/

#鈴木清順 #japanesecinema #japanesefilm #cinema #japan #brandedtokill #seijunsuzuki #filmcrit

🎞️ The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass / 峠を渡る若い風 (1961) x 🍶 Machida Shuzo Junmaiginjo 55 (五百万石)

Wada Kōji and Kaneko Nobuo star in this colourful and breezy early Suzuki Seijun 🎈 With a lively and lovely sake - raspberry fizz, cream, marzipan 😋🌸

#seijunsuzuki #sake #japanesesake #junmaiginjo #gohyakumangoku #nihonshu #sakesommelier #wadakoji #kanekonobuo #鈴木清順 #japanesecinema #japanesefilm

60 years ago:
Youth of the Beast (JP)
Original title: 野獣の青春
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
1963-04-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/37939
#YouthoftheBeast #SeijunSuzuki #JShishido #EijiG #ClassicFilm

🎞️ Our Blood Will Not Forgive / 俺たちの血が許さない (1964) x 🍶 Kuro Ushi Junmaiginjo Namagenshu Omachi

Seijun Suzuki’s yakuza revenge tale, featuring Akira Kobayashi and Hideki Takahashi. With a rich and fresh sake, white grape & rice + that amazing Omachi kick! 💥🌾

#小林旭 #sake #omachi #nihonshu #japanesesake #japanesesake🍶 #kuroushi #japanesefilm #seijunsuzuki #akirakobayashi

57 years ago:
Tokyo Drifter (JP)
Original title: 東京流れ者
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trail...
1966-04-10
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/45706
#TokyoDrifter #SeijunSuzuki #TetsuyaWatari #ChiekoMatsubara #TamioKawachi #Film

43 years ago:
Zigeunerweisen (JP)
Original title: ツィゴイネルワイゼン
A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
1980-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/110899
#Zigeunerweisen #SeijunSuzuki #ToshiyaFujita #YoshioHarada #MichiyoYasuda #ClassicFilm

66 years ago:
Eight Hours of Terror (JP)
Original title: ８時間の恐怖
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
1957-03-08
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/352729
#EightHoursofTerror #SeijunSuzuki #Film

Tokyo Drifter (1969) - Sujuki
Irma Vep (2022) - Assayas
#visualmotifs #olivierassayas #seijunsuzuki

#3GoodThings

1. I made a huge pot of chili in my Dutch oven. My chili recipe is full of veggies and is cumin-forward. It is delicious, if I do say so myself. I like to pair it with corn bread.

2. I watched Seijun Suzuki’s 1966 film CARMEN FROM KAWACHI at Japan Society. It’s a gender politics story.

3. I made plans with my BFF to go shopping tomorrow. She needs my help finding some houseware items for her new apartment.

#DutchOven #chili #SeijunSuzuki

An aspiring golfer begins to lose her sense of identity after being picked up as a brand ambassador in Seijun Suzuki's surreal consumerist satire, A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness. https://wp.me/p1x9li-ie8

#JapaneseCinema #JapaneseFilm #Film #FilmReview #SeijunSuzuki

57 years ago:
Carmen from Kawachi (JP)
Original title: 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.
1966-02-07
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/207724
#CarmenfromKawachi #SeijunSuzuki #YumikoNogawa #KayoMatsuo #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

Suzuki's anarchic take on Bizet's opera, Carmen From Kawachi, sees its heroine transcend the forces which oppress her to find true freedom and independence. https://wp.me/p1x9li-icC

Screening at Japan Society New York on Feb. 10 as part of the Seijun Suzuki Centennial.

#JapaneseFilm #JapaneseCinema #film #FilmReviews #SeijunSuzuki

Take Aim at the Police Van (1960) is a Seijun Suzuki crime thriller which is less surreal than his later movies but there are already signs of his idiosyncratic style.

Imaginative, provocative and very very stylish with a dash of sleaze and plenty of noirness.

An excellent movie.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/05/take-aim-at-police-van-1960.html

#japanesemovies #JapaneseCinema #filmnoir #FilmMastodon #SeijunSuzuki

Carmen from Kawachi 1966 ‘河内カルメン’
Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Yumiko Nogawam, Kōji Wada, Tamio Kawachi, Chikako Miyagi

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. Beautiful, stylish switching between a Western and #Japanese #Aesthetic. #Japan #Cinema #Movies 'Film #Seijunsuzuki #Nikkatsu

Carmen from Kawachi 1966 ‘河内カルメン’
Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Yumiko Nogawam, Kōji Wada, Tamio Kawachi, Chikako Miyagi

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. Beautiful, stylish switching between a Western and #Japanese #Aesthetic. #Japan #Cinema #Movies 'Film #Seijunsuzuki #Nikkatsu

🌹 河内カルメン / Carmen from Kawachi (1966)

🗃️ Drama, 🇯🇵
🎥 Seijun Suzuki
🎭 Yumiko Nogawa, Kōji Wada, Tamio Kawaji

#nowwatching #seijunsuzuki #cinema #film #japanesecinema #野川由美子