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Seijun Suzuki, born Seitaro Suzuki on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese film director. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded his magnum opus, Branded to Kill (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal but was blacklisted for 10 years. As an independent filmmaker he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991).

His films remained widely unknown outside of Japan until a series of theatrical retrospectives beginning in the mid 1980s, home video releases of key films such as Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter in the late 90s and tributes by such acclaimed filmmakers as Jim Jarmusch, Kitano Takeshi, Wong Kar-wai and Quentin Tarantino signaled his international discovery. Suzuki continued making films, albeit sporadically. He has emphysema and, due to health concerns, as of 2006, has no plans to direct further projects. In Japan, he is more commonly recognized as an actor for his numerous roles in Japanese films and television.

The Great Train Robbery was a milestone of cinema upon its release in 1903. The short clip shown at the end of the film depicting a bandit shooting his gun at the audience had a profound effect on them, with many allegedly thinking they were actually about to be shot.

• ...that Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema, was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad?
• ...that 1971's Out of the Darkness was the first Thai science fiction film?
• ...that the 1935 film Joymati, produced and directed by the noted Assam poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala, was the first-ever Assamese language film?
• ...that Japanese producer Genjiro Arato exhibited his 1980 film Zigeunerweisen across Japan in a specially-built inflatable mobile dome after exhibitors refused to screen it, and the film went on to win 4 Japanese Academy Awards?
• ...that former child-actor Danny Lloyd, famous for uttering "redrum" in the 1980 film The Shining, took his last film role in the 1982 made for television movie Will: G. Gordon Liddy?

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