About
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. 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)
Filmography
Independence of Japan2020 · Director, Screenplay, Writer
Hajimari mo owari mo nai2013 · Director, Writer
300 Million2010 · Director, Screenplay
What's a Director?2006 · Director
Pride1998 · Director, Screenplay
Demon Blade: The Assassin Katana of Onimaro1995 · Director
Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus1995 · Director
Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape1989 · Writer, Director
Labyrinth Romanesque1988 · Director
Gray Sunset1985 · Director
White Snake Enchantment1983 · Director
To Trap a Kidnapper1982 · Director
Curse of the Dog God1977 · Director, Screenplay
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable1973 · Director
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 411972 · Director, Screenplay
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion1972 · Director
Patience Has An End1971 · Screenplay
The Private Police1969 · Assistant Director
Parole1967 · Assistant Director
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South1966 · Assistant Director