Shunya Ito - Overview

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Date of birth
17 Feb 1937
90 years ago at Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As

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

Shunya Ito

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.

Biography

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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