Capone Cries a Lot (Kapone oi ni naku)

Action! - The Way of the Yakuza: Suzuki's Irreverent, Jarring and Illogical Brand Suzuki interrupts his trilogy and leans heavily into absurdist comedy with this amusing story of a singer hoping to get his breakthrough in America just to find himself having to deal with…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

An experimental screwball comedy from Seijun Suzuki on Japan-American relations, American imperialism and the allure of its culture. As wild as his craziest Nikkatsu movies. Musical numbers, off beat editing that keeps getting you by surprise, loony performances, wonderful…

Filipe Furtado

America land of dreams that are better forgotten. Funny and caustic poison pen letter from Seijun Suzuki. His formal control is at near top with his knack for absurdist tableaux perfectly deployed. Plenty of wonderful quick violent vignettes. Lots of recognizable American…

Filipe Furtado

There's something interesting about Suzuki going back to the Meiji/Taisho/Early Showa eras for so many of his meditations on the, uhh, forced cultural exchange between the US and Japan. Taking it all back to the point of inception and it's early days when the respective…

Div_vs_film

a naniwa bushi singer moves from japan to '20s san francisco with his beautiful wife; he becomes embroiled in prohibition era sake brewing, she is swept up into prostitution. their lives move forward through the 20s and 30s, they encounter racism and poverty and organized…

nrh

‘Floating in the rhythm of the dance’. White and red roses over spilled sake. A cultural struggle between Japan and the United States preceding the second world war. The road of a man with a dream, in a world with forces stronger than the individual. Suzuki incorporates…

Diogo Serafim

America is the great corruptive Satan and you will never truly be part of it.

ke_

Convinced this is Suzuki's most unhinged film out of his entire career?????

angurafilms

In his movies, Seijun Suzuki allows himself the freedom that his characters can never attain. They're all fools with more ambition than sense, trying to rise up in a world that's completely indifferent to what they're offering. So, to hell with it. Suzuki cuts through…

Philbert Dy