Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema

by William Carroll

Book Overview

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 burgeoning group of cinephiles to rally around. His films rapidly emerged as central to debates over politics and aesthetics in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023120437X
• ISBN13: 9780231204378
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"