Biography
Akira Suzuki (1928–2014) was a Japanese film editor. Born in Osaka, he graduated from Wakayama University in 1952 and began his career as an assistant director at Takarazuka Film before moving to Nikkatsu Studios in 1954, where he worked as an editor. He later served as a director at the studio from 1978 until 1989, after which he focused solely on editing.
Suzuki edited more than 430 films. His credits include Youth of the Beast (1963), Gate of Flesh (1964), Branded to Kill (1967), A Colt Is My Passport (1967), Virus (1980), Antarctica (1983), The Funeral (1984), Tampopo (1985), for which he received a Japanese Academy Award for Best Editing, Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981) and A Taxing Woman's Return (1988). He won the Cultural Affairs Agency Film Award in 2004.
