Shunya Ito
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-02-17 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Also known As
Shunya Itô
伊藤 俊也
Shunya Itō
Shun'ya Itô
Shunya Ito
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 ...
Production
1995
as Director
1973
as Director
1972
as Director
1972
as Director
1977
as Screenplay
1977
as Director
2006
as Director
2010
as Director
2020
as Director
1985
as Director
1982
as Director
1983
as Director
1988
as Director
2020
as Screenplay
1998
as Director
1989
as Director
1989
as Writer
1971
as Screenplay
2013
as Writer
2013
as Director
2010
as Screenplay
1967
as Assistant Director
1972
as Screenplay
1969
as Assistant Director
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