5. The Authorial Voice of Suzuki Seijun

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Names, Images, and Translations xiii
5. Introduction: Why Suzuki Seijun? 1
6. 1. 1968 and the Suzuki Seijun Incident 13
7. 2. Suzuki Seijun and the Impossibility of Cinema 38
8. 3. Postwar Japanese Genre Filmmaking and the Nikkatsu Action Sylistic Idiom 62
9. 4. The Emergence of the Seijunesque 91
10. 5. The Authorial Voice of Suzuki Seijun 125
11. Coda 155
12. Appendix 1. Filmography 159
13. Appendix 2. Unfilmed Projects 215
14. Appendix 3. Guryū Hachirō Extended Filmography 223
15. Appendix 4. Suzuki Seijun as Assistant Director 227
16. Appendix 5. Commercials Directed by Suzuki Seijun 229
17. Appendix 6. Books Written by Suzuki Seijun 231
18. Notes 233
19. Bibliography 253
20. Index 265