05/31/2026
Coming soon. Seijun Suzuki's THE MAN WITH A SHOTGUN plays Sunday, June 14 at 12:00 PM, as part of Film Geeks San Diego's ongoing series “Wanted Dead or Alive: A Year of Westerns”. 🎟️ Get tickets now at the 🔗🔝 or in person at our box office, while they last!
Drawing inspiration from Hollywood and the French New Wave, Suzuki’s works for Nikkatsu blended East and West, movie-fuelled fantasies and gritty realities of life in postwar Japan.
“Samurai movies often operate similarly to westerns (part of why SEVEN SAMURAI and YOJIMBO were later remade Stateside), but rarely do you see an actual Japanese western.” — Kyle Warner, City on Fire