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Izumi Suzuki (鈴木いづみ, Suzuki Izumi, July 10, 1949 – February 17, 1986) was a Japanese actor and writer, known for her science fiction stories and essays on Japanese pop culture. Married to avant-garde saxophonist Kaoru Abe until his death from overdose, she is also known for her association with photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

Izumi Suzuki
Born(1949-07-10)July 10, 1949
DiedFebruary 17, 1986(1986-02-17) (aged 36)
Tokyo, Japan
Other namesNaomi Asaka
OccupationNovelist, Essayist
Years active1966–1983
SpouseKaoru Abe
Children1

Life


1968 high school graduation portrait
1968 high school graduation portrait

Suzuki was born in Itō, Shizuoka in 1949. Her father Eiji Suzuki was a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. After graduating from Shizuoka Prefectural Itō High School in 1968, she worked briefly as a keypunch operator at Itō City Hall.[1]:287 In 1969 she was selected as a runner-up for the New Writers' Award administered by the monthly literary magazine Shōsetsu Gendai and moved to Tokyo, where she found work as a hostess, nude model, and actor.[2]

Though her acting career was brief, Suzuki's work was varied, and she appeared in both pink films and on stage, as a member of Tenjō Sajiki, the avant-garde theater troupe co-founded by Shūji Terayama.[3] Suzuki appeared in Tenjō Sajiki's 1970 play 人力飛行機ソロモン The Man-powered Plane Solomon, and in January 1971 the troupe presented "Izumi Suzuki's Avant-Garde Theater Week," during which they staged her plays ある種の予感 A Kind of Premonition and マリィは待っている Marie is Waiting. That same year she accompanied Tenjō Sajiki to Paris and Amsterdam.[1]:288–289 In 1970, she was shortlisted for the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers, and from 1971 devoted herself to writing. In 1975, thanks to an introduction from the science fiction author Taku Mayumura, she published her first sci-fi short story, "Trial Witch," in S-F Magazine. She had initially met Mayumura when she made an appearance on the late-night television program 11PM in 1970, during which he suggested she try reading science fiction.[1]:27

Suzuki married avant-garde saxophonist Kaoru Abe in 1973, with whom she had a daughter, Azusa, in April 1976. Azusa did not come to live with Suzuki until the early 80s, however, and in the interim was raised instead by Suzuki's family in Shizuoka.[4] In 1977 Suzuki divorced Abe (though they continued to live together), and he died a year later from an accidental overdose of Bromisoval. For a time she managed to support her daughter by publishing stories in sci-fi magazines, but eventually her health deteriorated and she began receiving public assistance. In 1986, she died by suicide by hanging herself at home.

Suzuki's tumultuous marriage to Abe was the subject of Endless Waltz, a 1992 novel by Mayumi Inaba, which prompted Suzuki's orphaned daughter to sue Inaba for invasion of privacy.[5] In 1995, the novel was adapted for film by Kōji Wakamatsu, an exponent of the pink film genre who directed Suzuki in his 1970 film Violence Without a Cause.

Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki took portraits of Suzuki throughout her career. These photographs were compiled after her death in a photograph collection titled Izumi,this bad girl.[6][lower-alpha 1] Araki's portraits of Suzuki have also been used on covers of Japanese reissues of her works[7] as well as English translations of her stories.[8]


Work


Suzuki belongs to the "Second Generation" of SF writers active in the 1970s, who broke free from the influence of American science fiction and developed an irreverent style all their own. Critic and scholar Takayuki Tatsumi calls Suzuki an "originator of the 'Sf of Manners,' who makes the most of her well-developed camp sensibility."[9]

Suzuki appeared in a number of pink films in 1970 under the name Naomi Asaka, beginning with her debut, A Virgin at Play. That same year she appeared in Violence Without a Cause, directed by Kōji Wakamatsu, and in the film adaptation of George Akiyama's controversial manga Zeni Geba, which was directed by Yoshinori Wada. Her only film appearance after 1971's Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets, directed by Shūji Terayama, appears to have been a 52-minute 16mm film called 家獣 House Beast, which was directed by Teiji Aoyama and released in 1979. The film has not been screened since the 1980s, however, and may be lost.[10]


Selected bibliography



Japanese



English



Selected filmography



As Naomi Asaka



As Izumi Suzuki



References


  1. Suzuki Izumi x Abe Kaoru Rabu Obu Supīdo 鈴木いづみ×阿部薫 ラブ・オブ・スピード [Izumi Suzuki x Kaoru Abe: Love of Speed]. Tokyo: Bunyūsha. 2009. ISBN 9784892570629.
  2. Izumi Suzuki 1949-1986. Tokyo: Bunyūsha. 1994. p. 227. ISBN 4892570141.
  3. Joseph, Daniel (7 April 2021). "How Izumi Suzuki Broke Science Fiction's Boys' Club". ArtReview. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  4. Izumi Suzuki 1949-1986. Tokyo: Bunyūsha. 1994. pp. 180, 186. ISBN 4892570141.
  5. "Suzuki Izumi". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. 7 June 2021. Archived from the original on 27 March 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  6. Araki, Nobuyoshi (2002). Izumi,this bad girl. Bunyūsha. ISBN 9784892570384.
  7. 鈴木いづみ関連図書館 [Gallery of books related to Izumi Suzuki]. Museum of Izumi Suzuki (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 23 September 2022. カバー写真 荒木経惟 [Cover Photo: Nobuyoshi Araki]
  8. Suzuki, Izumi (2021). Terminal Boredom. Verso Fiction. Credited inside back flap. ISBN 9781788739887.
  9. Tatsumi, Takayuki (March 2000). "Generations and Controversies: An Overview of Japanese Science Fiction, 1957-1997". Science Fiction Studies. 27 (1): 105–114. Archived from the original on 25 February 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  10. "'Mōshū, igyō no hitobito II' tokushū no uragawa de" 「妄執、異形の人々 II」特集の裏側で [Behind the Scenes of "Delusional and Twisted Figures II" Screening]. Eiga no kuni. 9 January 2008. Archived from the original on 25 February 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2022.

Notes


  1. Published in Japanese in Japan, the book's cover displays the English words "Izumi,this bad girl." using no space after the comma and a period after "girl."

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