Jūzō Itami

Date of birth

15 May 1933

94 years ago at Kyoto, Japan

Also Known As

Ichizô Itami
Jûzô Itami
이타미 주조
Itami Juzo
Itami Jūzō
Yoshihiro Ikeuchi
Ikeuchi Yoshihiro
池内義弘
Itami Juuzou
Juuzou Itami
Juzo Itami
伊丹一三

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.

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