Seijun Suzuki became a cinema legend in the 1960s with a handful of pop-art films. So how can you make a portrait of this iconoclastic director without also adopting a 'style to kill' documentary convention, as well as testimonies from a variety of leading figures in contemporary Japanese and international filmmakers.
Yves Montmayeur
Director

Seijun Suzuki
Self (archive footage)

John Woo
Self

Mika Ninagawa
Self

Joe Shishido
Self (archive footage)

Akira Kobayashi
Self

Nicolas Saada
Self
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