Shunya Ito
Directing
- Born
- February 17, 1937 (age 89) · Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Director and screenwriter, Shunya Itō is a Japanese film director known for starting the Sasori / Female Prisoner Scorpion series of 1970s exploitation films starring Meiko Kaji.
He won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards in 1985 with his film Gray Sunset,[2] a story of a man suffering from Alzheimer's disease. This thus became Japan's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film instead of Akira Kurosawa's Ran, which caused a slight uproar in Western media as many critics thought Ran had a real chance of winning whereas Gray Sunset was not even shortlisted. (Galbraith)
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Known for
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
August 25, 1972
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
December 30, 1972
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
July 29, 1973
Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus
April 22, 1995
Curse of the Dog God
June 18, 1977
Abashiri Prison
April 18, 1965
Gray Sunset
October 10, 1985
Patience Has An End
June 25, 1971
White Snake Enchantment
November 12, 1983
Labyrinth Romanesque
January 15, 1988
To Trap a Kidnapper
September 25, 1982
300 Million
July 3, 2010
Behind the camera23
- 2020Independence of Japan Director, Screenplay, Writer
- 2013Hajimari mo owari mo nai Director, Writer
- 2010300 Million Director, Screenplay
- 2006What's a Director? Director
- 1998Pride Director, Screenplay
- 1995Demon Blade: The Assassin Katana of Onimaro Director
- 1995Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus Director
- 1989Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape Writer, Director
- 1988Labyrinth Romanesque Director
- 1985