These photographs were compiled after her death in a photograph collection titled Izumi,this bad girl. Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki took portraits of Suzuki throughout her career. 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. 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. 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 1977 Suzuki divorced Abe (though they continued to live together), and he died a year later from an accidental overdose of Bromisoval. 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. Suzuki married avant-garde saxophonist Kaoru Abe in 1973, with whom she had a daughter, Azusa, in April 1976. : 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. After graduating from Shizuoka Prefectural Itō High School in 1968, she worked briefly as a keypunch operator at Itō City Hall. Her father Eiji Suzuki was a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. Suzuki was born in Itō, Shizuoka in 1949.
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