Shunya Ito

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Directing

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.

Filmography

• Independence of Japan (2020)
• Hajimari mo owari mo nai (2013)
• 300 Million (2010)
• What's a Director? (2006)
• Pride (1998)
• Demon Blade: The Assassin Katana of Onimaro (1995)
• Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus (1995)
• Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape (1989)
• Labyrinth Romanesque (1988)
• Gray Sunset (1985)
• White Snake Enchantment (1983)
• To Trap a Kidnapper (1982)
• Curse of the Dog God (1977)
• Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
• Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
• Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
• Patience Has An End (1971)
• The Private Police (1969)
• Parole (1967)
• Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South (1966)
• The Bullet and the Horse (1966)
• Prison Walls of Abashiri 4 (1965)
• Abashiri Prison (1965)