Shunya Ito
- Directing
- February 17, 1937 · 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 · Director, Screenplay
- Hajimari mo owari mo nai · Director, Writer
- 300 Million · Director, Screenplay
- What's a Director? · Director
- Pride · Director, Screenplay
- Demon Blade: The Assassin Katana of Onimaro · Director
- Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus · Director
- Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape · Director, Writer
- Labyrinth Romanesque · Director
- Gray Sunset · Director
- White Snake Enchantment · Director
- To Trap a Kidnapper · Director
- Curse of the Dog God · Director, Screenplay
- Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable · Director
- Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 · Director, Screenplay
- Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion · Director
- Patience Has An End · Screenplay
- The Private Police · Assistant Director
- Parole · Assistant Director
- Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South · Assistant Director
- The Bullet and the Horse · Assistant Director
- Prison Walls of Abashiri 4 · Assistant Director
- Abashiri Prison · Assistant Director