Masayuki Suo (å'¨é˜² æ£è¡Œ, Suo Masayuki, born October 29, 1956) is a
Japanese film director. He is best known for his two Japan Academy
Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We
Dance?.In 1982, along with filmmakers Yoshiho Fukuoka, Itsumichi
Isomura, Toshiyuki Mizutani and Akira Yoneda, Suo founded a production
company called Unit 5. Suo worked as an assistant director and
appeared in the cast of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's directorial debut, the pink
film Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983). At this early stage in his career,
Suo also wrote scripts for the pink film genre, such as Scanty Panty
Doll: Pungent Aroma (1983). Suo first film as director was also in the
pink film genre: Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride (1984), a film
designed as a tribute and satire of YasujirÅ Ozu's Tokyo Story. In
his book on the pink film, Behind the Pink Curtain (2008), Jasper
Sharp calls Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride an early
masterpiece, and one of the wittiest films ever made in the genre. Suo
not only pokes gentle fun at Ozu's story, but also mimics many of his
stylistic techniques, such as shooting his actors from a low,
tatami-mat angle, stiff and static characters speaking to each other
with mis-matched eye-angles, and a simple, sentimental melody which
accompanies the film. In the years since its release, the film has
amused film students with the activity of locating and identifying
Suo's many nods to Ozu and his oeuvre. Abnormal Family was Suo's only
directorial work in the pink film genre.He next worked for Juzo Itami,
to film "making of" pieces for that director's A Taxing Woman (1987)
and A Taxing Woman 2 (1988). He made his regular feature film debut
with Fancy Dance in 1989, and won the Directors Guild of Japan New
Directors Award for his next feature, Sumo Do, Sumo Don't, in
1991.Suo's 1996 Shall We Dance? won fourteen awards at the Japanese
Academy Awards including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and
Best Film and performed strongly in U.S. theaters. In 2006, Suo
directed I Just Didn't Do It, a legal film starring Ryo Kase. It was
followed by the 2012 medical-themed film A Terminal Trust. His musical
film, Lady Maiko, screened at the 2014 Shanghai International Film
Festival.
Japanese film director. He is best known for his two Japan Academy
Prize-winning films, 1992's Sumo Do, Sumo Don't and 1996's Shall We
Dance?.In 1982, along with filmmakers Yoshiho Fukuoka, Itsumichi
Isomura, Toshiyuki Mizutani and Akira Yoneda, Suo founded a production
company called Unit 5. Suo worked as an assistant director and
appeared in the cast of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's directorial debut, the pink
film Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983). At this early stage in his career,
Suo also wrote scripts for the pink film genre, such as Scanty Panty
Doll: Pungent Aroma (1983). Suo first film as director was also in the
pink film genre: Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride (1984), a film
designed as a tribute and satire of YasujirÅ Ozu's Tokyo Story. In
his book on the pink film, Behind the Pink Curtain (2008), Jasper
Sharp calls Abnormal Family: Older Brother's Bride an early
masterpiece, and one of the wittiest films ever made in the genre. Suo
not only pokes gentle fun at Ozu's story, but also mimics many of his
stylistic techniques, such as shooting his actors from a low,
tatami-mat angle, stiff and static characters speaking to each other
with mis-matched eye-angles, and a simple, sentimental melody which
accompanies the film. In the years since its release, the film has
amused film students with the activity of locating and identifying
Suo's many nods to Ozu and his oeuvre. Abnormal Family was Suo's only
directorial work in the pink film genre.He next worked for Juzo Itami,
to film "making of" pieces for that director's A Taxing Woman (1987)
and A Taxing Woman 2 (1988). He made his regular feature film debut
with Fancy Dance in 1989, and won the Directors Guild of Japan New
Directors Award for his next feature, Sumo Do, Sumo Don't, in
1991.Suo's 1996 Shall We Dance? won fourteen awards at the Japanese
Academy Awards including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and
Best Film and performed strongly in U.S. theaters. In 2006, Suo
directed I Just Didn't Do It, a legal film starring Ryo Kase. It was
followed by the 2012 medical-themed film A Terminal Trust. His musical
film, Lady Maiko, screened at the 2014 Shanghai International Film
Festival.
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