Shunya Itō

Shunya Itō
Born (1937-02-17) February 17, 1937
Occupation Film director

Shunya Itō (伊藤 俊也 Itō Shun'ya, born February 17, 1937) is a Japanese film director famed for starting the Sasori (Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, etc.) series of 1970s exploitation films starring Meiko Kaji. Itō worked for Toei Company for most of his career. He won a Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Citation for his first film, Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, in 1972.[1]

He won Best Picture 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)

In 1995 he directed Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus. In 1998 he directed the World War II drama Pride: The Fateful Moment presenting a humane view of Hideki Tōjō on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

Selected filmography

Notes

  1. "Nihon Eiga Kantoku Kyōkai Shinjinshō" (in Japanese). Directors Guild of Japan. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
  2. "Awards for Hana ichimonme (1985)" (in Japanese). Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-05-05.

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