Director

Shunya Ito

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Directed movies: 21Directed series: 0All crew credits: 22

TMDB ID: 107563

IMDb ID: nm0411746

Known for: Directing

Born: February 17, 1937

Age: 89

Place of birth: Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1965 - 2020

Years active: 56

Average TMDB rating: 6.82

Wikidata: Q725003

Also known as

Shunya Itô • 伊藤俊也 • Shunya Itō • Shun'ya Itô

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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.

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