Shunya Itō
Film director
1937 –
Who is Shunya Itō?
Shunya Itō is a Japanese film director famed for starting the Sasori series of 1970s exploitation films starring Meiko Kaji. Itō worked for Toei Company for most of his career. He won a Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Citation for his first film, Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, in 1972.
He won Best Picture at the Japanese Academy Awards in 1985 with his film Gray Sunset, 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.
In 1995 he directed Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus. In 1998 he directed the World War II drama Pride: The Fateful Moment presenting a humane view of Hideki Tōjō on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
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- Born
- Feb 17, 1937
Fukui Prefecture - Also known as
- Shun'ya Itô
- 伊藤 俊也
- いとう しゅんや
- Ito Shunya
- Children
- Nationality
- Japan
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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