Zigeunerweisen

7.1

First film from the trilogy by Suzuki Seijun. Films are showing the struggle between tradition and modern in Taisho era.

Arato Genjiro

Genjiro Arato was a Japanese film producer, actor and director. In 1980, Arato produced Zigeunerweisen for director Seijun Suzuki. He was unable to secure exhibitors for the film and famously exhibited it himself in a specially-built, inflatable, mobile tent. The film won four Japanese Academy Awards,…

Suzuki Seijun

Seijun Suzuki was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known 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…

Fujita Toshiya

Fujita Toshiya, also known as Fujita Shigeya (藤田繁矢), was a Japanese film director, film actor, and screenwriter.

Tanaka Yozo

Nagatsuka Kazue

Nagatsuka Kazue was a Japanese cinematographer.

Tamagawa Isao

Tamagawa Isao is a Japanese actor born January 11, 1922 in Shinjuku, Yotsuya, Tokyo (now Yotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo). He is known for playing intellectual villain roles. He debuted as an actor in 1954's "The Street Without Sun". He died on January 1, 2004 at the age of 81.

Okusu Michiyo

Okusu Michiyo is a Japanese actress, originally from Tianjin, China. She attended Mukogawa Women's University Junior and Senior High School before enrolling in the Department of Japanese Literature at Mukogawa Gakuin University Junior College. In 1964, while still in college, she was scouted by Nikkatsu…

Otani Naoko

Naoko Otani is a Japanese actress. She made her screen debut in The Human Bullet while still a high school student, and became popular for her role in the NHK Asadora television programme Nobuko to Obāchan in 1969. She published a collection of nude photos while pregnant. She has been married twice.

Harada Yoshio

Yoshio Harada (原田 芳雄 Harada Yoshio, 29 February 1940 - 19 July 2011) was a Japanese actor best known for playing rebels in a career that spanned six decades.

Born in Tokyo, Harada joined the Haiyūza theater troupe in 1966 and made his television debut in…

Kiki Kirin

Kiki Kirin was a Japanese actress from Kanda-ku, Tokyo. After graduating from high school, she started her acting career in the early 1960s as a member of the Bungakuza theater troupe using the stage name Yuki Chiho. She was aiming to become a pharmacist but abandoned college because her leg was injured…