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A scene from Mr. Suzuki’s final film, “Princess Raccoon” (2005), a crazy-quilt musical fantasia with styles ranging from rock to opera to rap.
Nippon Herald Films; thumbnail, Gabriel Bouys/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images, 2001
Seijun Suzuki
Died on February 13, 2017 at age 93
Mr. Suzuki was a Japanese filmmaker who enlivened his low-budget genre movies with pop-art flair and avant-garde theatrics, inspiring American directors like Quentin Tarantino and Jim Jarmusch.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.