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Jūzō Itami
Director · Screenplay · Writer · Actor · 31 credits
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.
All Work
Woman in Witness Protection
1997
Director · Screenplay
Supermarket Woman
1996
Director · Screenplay
A Quiet Life
1995
Director
The Last Dance
1993
Director · Screenplay
Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
1992
Writer · Director
Tales of a Golden Geisha
1990
Director · Writer
Sweet Home
1989
Kenichi Yamamura
A Taxing Woman's Return
1988
Director · Screenplay
A Taxing Woman
1987
Writer · Director
Tampopo
1985
Screenplay · Director
Bumpkin Soup
1985
Professor Hirayama
The Funeral
1984
Director · Screenplay
MacArthur's Children
1984
Hatano
The Makioka Sisters
1983
Tatsuo
The Family Game
1983
Kosuke Numata
Kidnapping Blues
1982
Walking Man
Island of the Evil Spirits
1981
Ryuhei Ochi
Private Collections
1979
(segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
I Am a Cat
1975
Meitei
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
1974
Ransui Tokunaga
Tokyo 196X
1968
Kenkichi Godai
The Notorious Concubines
1968
Ximen Qing
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
1966
Shunji Amemiya
Lord Jim
1965
Waris
The Flame of Devotion
1964
Takuji Yoshii
55 Days at Peking
1963
Col. Shiba
Ten Women in Black
1961
Hanamaki
Her Brother
1960
Son of Factory Owner