Shunya Ito
Directing
Born: 1937-02-17 · Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
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
🎬 Movies (23)
Independence of Japan
2020
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Hajimari mo owari mo nai
2013
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300 Million
2010
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What's a Director?
2006
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Pride
1998
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Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus
1995
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Demon Blade: The Assassin Katana of Onimaro
1995
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Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
1989
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Labyrinth Romanesque
1988
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Gray Sunset
1985
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White Snake Enchantment
1983
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To Trap a Kidnapper
1982
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Curse of the Dog God
1977
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
1973
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
1972
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
1972
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Patience Has An End
1971
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The Private Police
1969
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Parole
1967
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The Bullet and the Horse
1966
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Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
1966
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Abashiri Prison
1965
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Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
1965
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