Shunya Ito
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 17, 1937
- Birthplace
- Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
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.
Filmography
Independence of Japan 2020
Director, Screenplay, Writer
Hajimari mo owari mo nai 2013
Writer, Director
300 Million 2010
Director, Screenplay
What's a Director? 2006
Director
Pride 1998
Director, Screenplay
Demon Blade: The Assassin Katana of Onimaro 1995
Director
Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus 1995
Director
Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape 1989
Director, Writer
Labyrinth Romanesque 1988
Director
Gray Sunset 1985
Director
White Snake Enchantment 1983
Director
To Trap a Kidnapper 1982
Director
Curse of the Dog God 1977
Screenplay, Director
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable 1973
Director
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 1972
Director, Screenplay
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion 1972
Director
Patience Has An End 1971
Screenplay
The Private Police 1969
Assistant Director
Parole 1967
Assistant Director
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South 1966
Assistant Director
The Bullet and the Horse 1966
Assistant Director
Prison Walls of Abashiri 4 1965
Assistant Director
Abashiri Prison 1965
Assistant Director
Credits from TMDB.