was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

, Suzuki graduated from Meiji University and entered the

Shōchiku () is a Japanese film and kabuki production and distribution company. It also produces and distributes anime films, in particular those produced by Bandai Namco Filmworks (which has a long-time partnership—the company released most, if not ...

studio in 1925. He debuted as a director the next year with ''Tsuchi ni kagayaku'', a film starring

Denmei Suzuki was a Japanese film actor most famous for starring roles in gendaigeki of the silent era. Career Suzuki was born in Tokyo and was a championship swimmer at Meiji University when he first appeared in ''Souls on the Road'' in 1921 under the n ...

. He later moved to Teikoku Kinema and scored a major hit with '' What Made Her Do It?'' (1930), a leftist

tendency film is a genre of socially conscious, left-leaning films produced in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Tendency films reflected a perceived leftward shift in Japanese society in the aftermath of the 1927 Shōwa financial crisis. Japan's left-wing l ...

about the social causes of a single woman's sufferings. He later worked at many studios, including Fuji Eiga and the Manchuria Film Association, and in many genres, including documentary. A largely complete print of ''What Made Her Do It?'' was discovered in a Russian archive in the 1990s and restored. It was released on DVD in Japan with English subtitles in 2008.

Selected filmography

* '' What Made Her Do It?'' (Nani ga kanojo o sōsaseta ka 何が彼女をそうさせたか) (1930) * '' Seiryū no dōkutsu'' (青竜の洞窟) (1956)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki, Shigeyoshi Japanese film directors 1900 births 1976 deaths People from Tokyo Silent film directors 20th-century Japanese screenwriters