Shunya ItŠ(伊藤 俊也, ItŠShun'ya, born February 17, 1937) is a
Japanese film director known for starting the Sasori / Female Prisoner
Scorpion series of 1970s exploitation films starring Meiko Kaji. ItÅ
worked for Toei Company for most of his career. In 1972, he won a
Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Citation for his first film,
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion.He won Picture of the Year at the
Japanese Academy Awards in 1985 with his film Gray Sunset, 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)In 1995, he directed Lupin
III: Farewell to Nostradamus. In 1998, he directed the World War II
drama Pride: The Fateful Moment, presenting a humane view of Hideki
TÅ jÅ on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far
East.
Japanese film director known for starting the Sasori / Female Prisoner
Scorpion series of 1970s exploitation films starring Meiko Kaji. ItÅ
worked for Toei Company for most of his career. In 1972, he won a
Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Citation for his first film,
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion.He won Picture of the Year at the
Japanese Academy Awards in 1985 with his film Gray Sunset, 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)In 1995, he directed Lupin
III: Farewell to Nostradamus. In 1998, he directed the World War II
drama Pride: The Fateful Moment, presenting a humane view of Hideki
TÅ jÅ on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far
East.
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