Shigeyoshi Suzuki (film director)

Shigeyoshi Suzuki (鈴木重吉, Suzuki Shigeyoshi, 25 June 1900 – 8 October 1976) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Poster for What Made Her Do It?

Born in Tokyo, Suzuki graduated from Meiji University and entered the Shōchiku studio in 1925.[1] He debuted as a director the next year with Tsuchi ni kagayaku, a film starring Denmei Suzuki.[1] He later moved to Teikoku Kinema and scored a major hit with What Made Her Do It? (1930), a leftist tendency film about the social causes of a single woman's sufferings.[1] He later worked at many studios, including Fuji Eiga and the Manchuria Film Association, and in many genres, including documentary.[1] A largely complete print of What Made Her Do It? was discovered in a Russian archive in the 1990s and restored.[2] It was released on DVD in Japan with English subtitles in 2008.

Selected filmography

References
  1. "Suzuki Shigeyoshi". Nihon jinmei daijiten (in Japanese). Kōdansha. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
  2. Ōta, Yoneo (2001). "Eiga no fukugen: Nani ga kanojo o sōsaseta ka (1929) ni kanshite" (PDF). Geijutsu (Ōsaka Geijutu Daigaku kiyō) (in Japanese). 24: 108–121.
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