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Masayuki Suo is a director not afraid to touch on cultural taboos in his work, most notably with 's breakthrough “Shall We Dance?”.

Director Masayuki Suo started his career in the “pink film” genre of Japanese erotic cinema..

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周防正行　Masayuki Suo

After a childhood spent living and breathing movies and baseball, Tokyo-born Suo entered Rikkyo university to study French Literature.

It was there that lectures by esteemed movie critic, Shigehiko Hasumi inspired him to become a film director. After an initial foray into independent movies, he got a leg up when he summoned the nerve to ask director Banmei Takahashi, for a job.

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Born in Kobe in , Kurosawa Kiyoshi became interested in filmmaking as an elementary school student after he saw films by Italian horror.

Director Masayuki Suo started his career in the “pink film” genre of Japanese erotic cinema.

A fascinating cinematic homage to Ozu by Suo¯ Masayuki points to the crux of the problem.

This movie was originally made in Japan in and directed by Masayuki Suo (Suo, , ).

The legendary director, who happened to be a regular customer at a bar where Suo's friend was working, gave Suo unpaid unemployment at the telephone switchboard. Suo went on to become an Assistant Director on as many as 10 movies a year for Takahashi as well as other directors in his stable such as Koji Wakamatsu and Kazuyuki Izutsu.

When Takahashi founded the Director's Company in 1982, Suo took the opportunity to open Unit 5, his own filmmaking collective with young colleagues of that era, Isumichi Isomura, Yoshiho Fukuoka, Toshiyuki Mizut