Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918-2010), recall how they made their great masterpieces about the Yakuza underworld for the Nikkatsu film company.
Cast
Seijun Suzuki
Self - Filmmaker & Screenwriter
Takeo Kimura
Self - Art Director & Screenwriter
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