Jūzō Itami
Directing
🎂 1933-05-15
Jūzō Itami (1933–1997) was a Japanese actor and, later, a popular modern screenwriter and film director. Many critics came to regard him as Japan's greatest director since Akira Kurosawa. His ten feature-length movies and one short film, all of which he wrote himself, are comic satires on elements of Japanese culture. He died under suspicious circumstances in December 1997 and may have been murdered by the yakuza.
Cast credits(60)
1982
Self (archive footage)
2012
Professor Hirayama
1985
Col. Shiba
1963
Ôtake
1967
Ransui Tokunaga
1974
Principal / Priest / Old man
1979
Kenichi Yamamura
1989
Tatsuo
1983
Mr. Numata
1983
Ximen Qing
1968
Waris
1965
Hatano
1984
Lawyer
1981
(segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
1979
1969
Walking Man
1982
2003
Shunji Amemiya
1966
Kawara
1983
Ryuhei Ochi
1981
Son of Factory Owner
1960
1971
1968
Sahei Oumiya
1981
Hanamaki
1961
Takuji Yoshii
1964
Meitei
1975
Sasa
1980
Iino
1969
1968
Kenji Kijima
1967
1969
Shinji Sakaguchi
1968
Dr. Takagi
1974
Takamizawa
1979
1962
Sozo
1960
Kumakura
1984
Itakura
1983
Self
1987
1970
1960
Self
1993
Toru
1961
1971
1991
1982
Self
1992
Self
1990
Self
2012
Self
1988
Self
1986
Self
1989
Self (archive footage)
2007
1992
Self
2012
Self
2012
Self
2007
Self (archive footage)
2011
