Archive for tag: Seijun Suzuki

DVD/Blu-ray: Tokyo Drifter

10 January, 2012 (11:11) | Blu-ray, by Sean Axmaker, DVD, Film Noir | By: Sean Axmaker

Seijun Suzuki isn’t necessarily a familiar name to many fans of foreign cinema — he was practically unknown outside of Japan for decades — but in the early 1990s, his “rediscovery” stateside made him an instant cult hero to fans of genre cinema with maverick visions. Suzuki was nothing if not a maverick, a prolific [...]

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Jeanne Dielman and Nikkatsu Noir – DVDs for the Week

24 August, 2009 (17:18) | by Sean Axmaker, DVD, Film Noir | By: Sean Axmaker

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles “A singular work in film history,” begins the description on back of the case of Criterion’s long-awaited DVD release of Chantal Akerman’s astounding 1975 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. That is no hyperbole. Jeanne Dielman is a painstaking, excruciatingly exacting portrait of the life [...]

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Jo Shishido and the Red Cherry Blossom Wanderer – DVDs for the Week

19 May, 2009 (00:47) | by Sean Axmaker, David Cronenberg, DVD | By: Sean Axmaker

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (Kino) It may not be the best film of the week but this early Seijun Suzuki yakuza potboiler certainly sports the greatest title I’ve seen flash across my flatscreen all year: Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! The film, starring a cocky and cool Jo Shishido as [...]

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