Shunya Ito

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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. (Galb…

  • Directing
  • Born 17 February 1937 (age 89)
  • Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
  • 23 credits

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Most-watched Shunya Ito films currently: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972), White Snake Enchantment (1983), Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus (1995), Labyrinth Romanesque (1988), Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972).

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