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Shunya Itō

is a Japanese film director known for starting the Sasori / Female Prisoner Scorpion series of 1970s exploitation films starring Meiko Kaji. Itō worked for Toei Company for most of his career. In 1972, he won a Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Citation for his first film, '.

He won Picture of the Year 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 '. In 1998, he directed the World War II drama Pride: The Fateful Moment, presenting a sympathetic view of Hideki Tōjō on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, attracting accusations of revisionism.

Filmography

  • ' (1972) (女囚701号 さそり)
  • ' (1972) (女囚さそり 第41雑居房)
  • ' (1973) (女囚さそり けもの部屋)
  • Inugami no tatari, aka Curse of the Dog God (1977) (犬神の悪霊)
  • To Trap a Kidnapper (1982) (誘拐報道)
  • Hakujasho (1983) (白蛇抄)
  • Gray Sunset (1985) (花いちもんめ)
  • Labyrinth Romanesque, aka Labyrinth of Flower Garden (1988) (花園の迷宮)
  • Misty Kid of Wind: The Glass Cape (1989) (風の又三郎　ガラスのマント)
  • Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus (1995) (ルパン三世 くたばれ！ノストラダムス)
  • Onimaro zanshinken, aka Demon Slayer Sword (1995, TV movie)
  • Pride: The Fateful Moment (1998) (プライド 運命の瞬間)
  • What’s a Director?, aka Eiga kantoku tte nanda! (2006, documentary) (映画監督って何だ！)
  • 300 Million, aka Rosuto kuraimu: Senkô (2010) (ロストクライム　-閃光-)
  • Hajimari mo owari mo nai, aka No Beginning, No End (2013) (始まりも終わりもない)
  • Independence of Japan (2020) (日本独立)

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