Jūzō Itami
Directing Born May 15, 1933 Kyoto, Japan 24 credits
Biography
Jūzō Itami (1933–1997) was a Japanese actor and, later, a popular modern screenwriter and film director. Many critics came to regard him as Japan's greatest director since Akira Kurosawa. His ten feature-length movies and one short film, all of which he wrote himself, are comic satires on elements of Japanese culture. He died under suspicious circumstances in December 1997 and may have been murdered by the yakuza.
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Full filmography
- Toge no Gunzo (1982)
- 55 Days at Peking (1963) as Col. Shiba
- Private Collections (1979) as (segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
- Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974) as Ransui Tokunaga
- Lord Jim (1965) as Waris
- Play it, Boogie-Woogie (1981) as Lawyer
- Bumpkin Soup (1985) as Professor Hirayama
- The Makioka Sisters (1983) as Tatsuo
- Her Brother (1960) as Son of Factory Owner
- Sing a Song of Sex (1967) as Ôtake
- Sweet Home (1989) as Kenichi Yamamura
- Choji Snack Bar (1983) as Kawara
- Ten Dark Women (1961) as Hanamaki
- MacArthur's Children (1984) as Hatano
- Island of the Evil Spirits (1981) as Ryuhei Ochi
- The Family Game (1983) as Mr. Numata
- Grass Labyrinth (1979) as Principal / Priest / Old man
- Kodawari Otoko to Marusa no Onna (2012) as Self (archive footage)
- No More Easy Life (1979) as Takamizawa
- My Way (1974) as Dr. Takagi
- By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him (1966) as Shunji Amemiya
- The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze (1968)
- The Notorious Concubines (1968) as Ximen Qing
- I Am a Cat (1975) as Meitei