- Shunya Ito
Shunya Ito (伊藤俊也 "Itō Shun'ya") is a
Japan esefilm director famed for starting the "Sasori" ("Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion", etc.) series of 1970sexploitation films based onToru Shinohara 'smanga and starringMeiko Kaji . Ito worked forToei Company for most of his career.He won Best Picture at the
Japanese Academy Awards in 1985 with his film "Gray Sunset ", a story of a man suffering fromAlzheimer's disease . This thus became Japan's entry for theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film instead ofAkira 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)His most recent films are the 1995
anime movie in the "Lupin III " series: "", and the 1998World War II drama "Pride: The Fateful Moment" presenting a humane view ofHideki Tojo on trial at theInternational Military Tribunal for the Far East .elected filmography
* "" (1972) (女囚701号 さそり)
* "" (1972) (女囚さそり 第41雑居房)
* "" (1973) (女囚さそり けもの部屋)
* "To Trap a Kidnapper" (1982) (誘拐報道)
* "Gray Sunset " (1985) (花いちもんめ)
* "Labyrinth of Flower Garden" (1988) (花園の迷宮)
* "" (1995) (ルパン三世 くたばれ!ノストラダムス)
* "" (1998) (プライド 運命の瞬間)References
* Stuart Galbraith IV. "The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune". Faber & Faber, 2002. ISBN 0-571-19982-8
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* [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0031180.htm JMDb Listing] (Japanese)
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