Occupation Film director Role Film director | Name Shunya Ito Children Kyo Ito | |
Born February 17, 1937 (age 87) ( 1937-02-17 ) Awards Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year Movies Female Prisoner #701: Sc, Female Convict Scorpion, Female Convict Scorpion, Hakujasho, Pride Similar People Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Rumiko Koyanagi, Isao Natsuyagi, Kayoko Shiraishi | ||
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Shunya Itō (伊藤 俊也, Itō Shun'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. Itō 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.
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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 Tōjō on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.