Shunya Ito
Born: 1937-02-17 in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Known For: Directing
Biography
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) The above information is sourced from the Shunya Itō Wikipedia page.
Filmography
2020
- Independence of Japan ... (Director)
2013
- Hajimari mo owari mo nai ... (Director)
2010
- 300 Million ... (Director)
2006
- What's a Director? ... (Director)
1998
- Pride ... (Director)
1995
- Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus ... (Director)
1989
- Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape ... (Writer)
1988
- Labyrinth Romanesque ... (Director)
1985
- Gray Sunset ... (Director)
1983
- White Snake Enchantment ... (Director)
1982
- To Trap a Kidnapper ... (Director)
1977
- Curse of the Dog God ... (Director)
1973
- Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable ... (Director)
1972
- Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion ... (Director)
- Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 ... (Director)
1971
- Patience Has An End ... (Screenplay)
1969
- The Private Police ... (Assistant Director)
1967
- Parole ... (Assistant Director)
1966
- The Bullet and the Horse ... (Assistant Director)
- Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South ... (Assistant Director)
1965
- Prison Walls of Abashiri 4 ... (Assistant Director)
- Abashiri Prison ... (Assistant Director)