Shunya Ito

4 titles·Since 1972

February 17, 1937 · 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.

Frequently works with

Meiko Kaji

3 titles together

Fumio Watanabe

2 titles together

Yayoi Watanabe

2 titles together

Filmography (4)

Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus

1995 · Director

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

1973 · Director

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

1972 · Director

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

1972 · Director

February 17, 1937 · 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.