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Youth of the Beast
In February 2017, iconoclast filmmaker Seijun Suzuki died at the age of 93. His career lasted fifty years, the most famous period of which was his time working within the studio system at Nikkatsu where he became something of a rebel craftsman. After a handful of years churning out B-pictures for the studio, three to sometimes five films a year, he began to seek ways to make these films more interesting both aesthetically and structurally. In 1963’s Youth of the Beast, Jo Shishido (what Mifune was to Kurosawa, Shishido was to Suzuki) plays an ex-cop who seeks revenge against the yakuza organization who killed one of his colleagues. With this standard genre fare as a starting point, Suzuki strips away all exposition and loads the film with surreal decors and popping colors. The film peaks when notions of time and place are destabilized. Join us in honoring the late master whose influence can be seen in the works of Shunya Ito (Female Prisoner Scorpion series), Quentin Tarantino, and Jim Jarmusch with a free screening of the first film that can truly be called “Suzukian.”

Director    Seijun Suzuki
Country    Japan
Year    1963
Runtime    91min
Starring    Jo Shishido
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  • About / Contact
  • Submit Your Film
  • Previous Programs
    • 2023 Program >
      • 2023 Community Conversations >
        • 3/11 - Celebrating the Stories of our LGBTQ+ Asian American Pacific Islander Community
        • 3/12 - Celebrating the Stories of our Multiracial AAPI Community
      • 2023 Short Films Showcase >
        • Amache Rose
        • Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya Findings
        • Dirty Rotten Tofu and the Gohan Girls
        • One Fine Day
        • Paddles on the Water
        • Soon
        • Thread
      • 2023 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • 1992
        • Daruma
        • Esperanza
        • it's in the cards, fatherhood
        • My Grandpa Says He's an Alien
        • The Pomegranate Tree
        • The Waterspout
        • Yesterday I Was the Moon
    • 2022 Program >
      • 2022 Community Conversations >
        • 3/5 - CAPU
        • 3/6 - AGI
      • 2022 Short Films Showcase >
        • #AsianAmResilience Microdocs
        • good enough
        • In Wake of the Crashing Dawn
        • Projections
        • Charlie
        • Desert Lotus
        • Ara, Untamed
        • My Name is not Amy
      • 2022 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • Sino Ako
        • All Mine
        • Winter Glass Glare
        • Core
        • Maa
        • Heart Sutra
    • 2021 Program >
      • 2021 Short Film Showcase >
        • #AsianAMCovidStories
        • Duo Pandemia
        • Mastery I & II
        • Ib Tsug 13 Hnub
        • Ntuj Tsim Txom
        • Mechamorphosis
        • The 3 Day Nun
        • The Loyal Betrayal
        • Voices
      • 2021 Emerging Artists Showcase >
        • Check Box: Other
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter >
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S2
          • I Put the Bi in Bitter S1
        • Safe
        • In the Spotlight
    • 2020 Program >
      • Digital Program Book
      • 2020 Creative Conversations >
        • 2/21 - Best Tasting Wild Foods of Colorado​
        • 2/22 - Health & Mental Health
        • 2/22 - Mushroom Foraging 101
      • 2020 Asian American Documentaries >
        • Palliative
        • Love Boat: Taiwan
      • 2020 Colorado Showcase >
        • The Rock Within
        • Ma
        • For Tashi
        • people (of water)
        • Not Pictured
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
      • Ang Larawan (The Portrait)
      • Asian American Artist Showcase
    • 2019 Program >
      • 2019 Film Shorts >
        • Runner
        • Tears of the Sky
        • I Put the Bi in Bitter
        • My Escape
      • 2019 CU Denver Showcase >
        • Three Worlds One Stage
        • Virtual Mandala
      • 2019 Festival Talkbacks >
        • Creative Leadership Talkback
        • CU Filmmaker Q&A
        • Film Industry Talkback
    • 2018 Program
    • 2017 Program >
      • Taipei Story
      • The Last Princess
      • Mid-Length Films Block
      • Ten Years
      • What's in the Darkness
      • Millennium Actress
      • The Future Perfect
      • Youth of the Beast
      • Being Good
      • Heart Attack
      • Bloody Dairy
      • Bruce Takes Dragon Town
      • Cowboy and Indian
      • Dancing Through Life: The Dorothy Toy Story
      • Ho Chi Minh Kim Chi
      • Mango Sticky Rice
      • Night-Fly
      • Sumo Road - The Musical
      • Threads - The Art and Life of Surayia Rahman
      • Twenty Years
    • 2016 Program >
      • Wolf Children
      • Uzumasa Limelight
      • Changing Season
      • Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
      • Awesome Asian Bad Guys
      • Off the Menu: Asian America
      • Winning Girl
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