Jūzō Itami
Directing • Born 1933-05-15 – Died 1997-12-20
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.
Filmography
61 credits
Sweet Secret
Movie • 1971
Private Collections
Movie • 1979
(segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
Movie • 1974
Ransui Tokunaga
A Young Man's Stronghold
Movie • 1970
The Making of "Tales of a Golden Geisha"
Movie • 1990
Self
The Making of "Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion"
Movie • 1992
Self
Itami Juzo Museum's "13"
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Sing a Song of Sex
Movie • 1967
Ôtake
Her Brother
Movie • 1960
Son of Factory Owner
No More Easy Life
Movie • 1979
Takamizawa
The Making of "A Taxing Woman"
Movie • 1987
Self
The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
Movie • 1988
Self
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
Movie • 1989
Self
Kidnapping Blues
Movie • 1982
Walking Man
Making of Daibyonin
Movie • 1993
Self
My Way
Movie • 1974
Dr. Takagi
Onna no naka no akuma
Movie • 1982
55 Days at Peking
Movie • 1963
Col. Shiba
MacArthur's Children
Movie • 1984
Hatano
"Utsukishiki Shizuka na Seikatsu" + satsuei genba hōmonki
Movie • 2012
Self
'Marutai no Onna' satsuei wo oete
Movie • 2012
Self
Itami-ryū super na supermarket ga dekiru made
Movie • 2012
Self
Itami Jūzō Kinenkan ga dekiru made
Movie • 2007
Self
Safari 5000
Movie • 1969
The Flame of Devotion
Movie • 1964
Takuji Yoshii
Grass Labyrinth
Movie • 1979
Principal / Priest / Old man
The Family Game
Movie • 1983
Mr. Numata
Juzo Itami: The Man with 13 Faces
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Shirayuri Girls' Academy Western Archery Club: A Silver Target
Movie • 1991
北の国から 記憶 前編
Movie • 2003
Lord Jim
Movie • 1965
Waris
Heat Wave Island
Movie • 1969
Iino
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Movie • 1966
Shunji Amemiya
Island of the Evil Spirits
Movie • 1981
Ryuhei Ochi
I Am a Cat
Movie • 1975
Meitei
Choji Snack Bar
Movie • 1983
Kawara
Convenience Jack
Movie • 1992
Human Torpedoes
Movie • 1968
The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
Movie • 1968
Play it, Boogie-Woogie
Movie • 1981
Lawyer
The Notorious Concubines
Movie • 1968
Ximen Qing
The False Student
Movie • 1960
Sozo
Ten Dark Women
Movie • 1961
Hanamaki
The Making of "Tampopo"
Movie • 1986
Self
Rubber Band Pistol
Movie • 1962
The Makioka Sisters
Movie • 1983
Tatsuo
Bumpkin Soup
Movie • 1985
Professor Hirayama
Parole
Movie • 1967
Kenji Kijima
Team of Ruffians
Movie • 1969
Until Evening
Movie • 1980
Sasa
The Big Wave
Movie • 1961
Toru
Sweet Home
Movie • 1989
Kenichi Yamamura
The Gentle Japanese
Movie • 1971
Make-Up
Movie • 1984
Kumakura
Even If Life Withers
Movie • 1968
Shinji Sakaguchi
Baian the Assassin
Movie • 1981
Sahei Oumiya
Kirai Kirai Kirai
Movie • 1960
The Politicians
Movie • 1983
Itakura
The Biggest Post-war Kidnapping: The Yoshinobu case
Movie • 1979
Narration
Toge no Gunzo
TV • 1982
Kodawari Otoko to Marusa no Onna
TV • 2012
Self (archive footage)