Shunya Itō
Born February 17, 1937 is a Japanese film director known for starting the Sasori / Female Prisoner Scorpion series of 1970s exploitation films starring Meiko Kaji. Itō worked for Toei Company for most of his career. In 1972, he won a Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Citation for his first film, Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion.
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Shunya Itō
- Name
- Shunya Itō
- Born
- 17 February 1937
- Occupation
- Film director
- Nationality
- Japan
- Education
- University of Tokyo
- Honours
- Medal with Purple Ribbon
- Languages
- Japanese
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He won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards in 1985 with his film Gray Sunset, 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. In 1995, he directed Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus. In 1998, he directed the World War II drama Pride: The Fateful Moment, presenting a sympathetic view of Hideki Tōjō on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, attracting accusations of revisionism.
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• Name — Shunya Itō • Born — 17 February 1937 • Occupation — Film director
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Shunya Itō, recorded as a film director and screenwriter, was born on 17 February 1937 in Fukui. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Filmography
Filmography
• Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972) • Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) • Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973) • Inugami no tatari, aka Curse of the Dog God (犬神の悪霊, 1977) • To Trap a Kidnapper (1982) • Hakujasho (1983) • Gray Sunset (1985) • Labyrinth Romanesque, aka Labyrinth of Flower Garden (花園の迷宮, 1988) • Misty Kid of Wind: The Glass Cape (風の又三郎 ガラスのマント, 1989) • Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus (1995) • Onimaro zanshinken, aka Demon Slayer Sword (1995, TV movie) • Pride: The Fateful Moment (1998) • What's a Director?, aka Eiga kantoku tte nanda! (映画監督って何だ！, 2006 documentary) • 300 Million, aka Lost Crime, aka Rosuto kuraimu: Senkô (ロストクライム -閃光-, 2010) • Hajimari mo owari mo nai, aka No Beginning, No End (始まりも終わりもない, 2013) • Independence of Japan (日本独立, 2020)
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