Directing
Norifumi Suzuki
Born November 26, 1933 · Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Died May 15, 2014 · aged 80
Norifumi Suzuki was a Japanese director mostly known for his work on the Truck Yaro movies, and the pinku eiga genre. He was a recipient of the 1985 Yokohama Film Festival Career Award and the 2015 Japan Academy Prize for Special Award from the Chairman.
Known For
Star of David: Beauty Hunting · 1979Star of David: Beauty Hunting
★ 6.21979
MovieHorrorThriller
The life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper yet mysterious descent, whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture.
Sex and Fury · 1973Sex and Fury
★ 6.21973
MovieActionCrime
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shunosuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa, and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
Girl Boss Guerilla · 1972Girl Boss Guerilla
★ 6.01972
MovieAction
Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there.
The Transgressor · 1974The Transgressor
★ 6.41974
MovieDramaThriller
18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
Shogun's Ninja · 1980Shogun's Ninja
★ 6.21980
MovieActionAdventure
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the treasured gold. Spanning decades, the quest for the missing daggers takes Shiranui through war and ancient tradition.
Giant Rumble · 1964Giant Rumble
★ 6.01964
MovieAction
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home town. Swearing allegiance to his fiancée’s father, a decent boss, he had taken to the road after a gang fight until things cooled down. While honing his sword skills in his travels, everything in the town had changed and he descended into a virtual hell of violence. Opponents were being slaughtered by a former samurai ‘Bodyguard’ played by Tanba Tetsuro at the height of his amazing career. While these two master swordsmen are fated to meet, before that can even happen they must survive one of the longest, bloodiest swordfights in movie history!
Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group · 1973Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
★ 8.01973
MovieActionCrime
A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is determined and tough enough to contest the girl's gang in a democratic vote - and win. That causes her trouble in school, just when her own father, who owns a truck transport company, is murdered in a fake car accident by an American mobster. Before the girl can react, her naive mother has signed over the company to the mobster, and accepted him as her lover. Repentant, the mother starts drinking, and the good schoolgirl ties up with a halfbreed young man, who also has a grudge against Americans. He starts spying on the gangsters, discovers they are dealing in drugs, but is killed before he can report it. The good girl will lead her team in a desperation assault on the mobsters - and the police will eventually arrive just in time for the showdown.
Truck Rascals in Fever Heat · 1976Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
★ 10.01976
MovieComedyAction
The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” who travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. Momojiro goes to Shikoku this time, and he falls in love with a beautiful designer named Wakako, who is on a pilgrimage.
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