Jūzō Itami
Directing
Biography
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.
As actor 62
Toge no Gunzo
1982
The Notorious Concubines
1968
55 Days at Peking
1963
Lord Jim
1965
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
1989
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
1974
Sing a Song of Sex
1967
Bumpkin Soup
1985
Private Collections
1979
The Making of "Tampopo"
1986
Play it, Boogie-Woogie
1981
Island of the Evil Spirits
1981
Sweet Home
1989
The Makioka Sisters
1983
The Family Game
1983
Sweet Secret
1971
I Am a Cat
1975
Ten Dark Women
1961
Grass Labyrinth
1979
Kodawari Otoko to Marusa no Onna
2012
Choji Snack Bar
1983
Her Brother
1960
Kidnapping Blues
1982
MacArthur's Children
1984
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
1979
No More Easy Life
1979
The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
1968
Human Torpedoes
1968
The Gentle Japanese
1971
The Flame of Devotion
1964
The False Student
1960
Heat Wave Island
1969
The Making of "Tales of a Golden Geisha"
1990
Rubber Band Pistol
1962
Team of Ruffians
1969
北の国から 記憶 前編
2003
The Politicians
1983
Parole
1967
Make-Up
1984
The Big Wave
1961
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
1966
The Making of "Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion"
1992
Safari 5000
1969
The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
1988
The Making of "A Taxing Woman"
1987
Shirayuri Girls' Academy Western Archery Club: A Silver Target
1991
My Way
1974
Baian the Assassin
1981
A Young Man's Stronghold
1970
Until Evening
1980
Convenience Jack
1992
Kirai Kirai Kirai
1960
Juzo Itami: The Man with 13 Faces
2007
Even If Life Withers
1968
Itami Juzo Museum's "13"
2011
Making of Daibyonin
1993
Onna no naka no akuma
1982
'Marutai no Onna' satsuei wo oete
2012
Tokyo 196X
1968
Itami-ryū super na supermarket ga dekiru made
2012
"Utsukishiki Shizuka na Seikatsu" + satsuei genba hōmonki
2012
Itami Jūzō Kinenkan ga dekiru made
2007
