Shigeyoshi Suzuki (film director)

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.

[2] It was released on DVD in Japan with English subtitles in 2008.