As Director
Pride
1998
5.0
Shunya Ito
Directing
Birth Date
February 17, 1937
Place of Birth
Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
Biography
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) The above information is sourced from the Shunya Itō Wikipedia page.
Complete Filmography
As Director
Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus
1995
6.5
As Director, As Writer
Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
1989
5.0
As Director
Labyrinth Romanesque
1988
5.3
As Director
Gray Sunset
1985
6.1
As Director
White Snake Enchantment
1983
4.7
As Director, As Writer
Curse of the Dog God
1977
6.1
As Director
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
1973
6.8
As Director, As Writer
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
1972
7.1
As Director
Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701
1972
7.0
As Writer
Patience Has An End
1971
5.7