Shunya Ito
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 17, 1937 (age 89)
- Birthplace
- Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
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.
Known For
Filmography
Independence of Japan
Movie · Director
Hajimari mo owari mo nai
Movie · Director
300 Million
Movie · Director
What's a Director?
Movie · Director
Pride
Movie · Director
Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus
Movie · Director
Demon Blade: The Assassin Katana of Onimaro
Movie · Director
Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
Movie · Director
Labyrinth Romanesque
Movie · Director
Gray Sunset
Movie · Director
White Snake Enchantment
Movie · Director
To Trap a Kidnapper
Movie · Director
Curse of the Dog God
Movie · Director
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
Movie · Director
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Movie · Director
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
Movie · Director
The Private Police
Movie · Assistant Director
Parole
Movie · Assistant Director
The Bullet and the Horse
Movie · Assistant Director
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
Movie · Assistant Director
Abashiri Prison
Movie · Assistant Director
Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
Movie · Assistant Director