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Shunya Ito
Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan
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.…
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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.
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2020
Independence of Japan
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2013
Hajimari mo owari mo nai
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2010
300 Million
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2006
What's a Director?
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1998
Pride
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1995
Demon Blade: The Assassin Katana of Onimaro
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1995
Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus
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1989
Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
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1988
Labyrinth Romanesque
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1985
Gray Sunset
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1983
White Snake Enchantment
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1982
To Trap a Kidnapper
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1977
Curse of the Dog God
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1973
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
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1972
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
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1972
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
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1971
Patience Has An End
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1969
The Private Police
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1967
Parole
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1966
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
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1966
The Bullet and the Horse
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1965
Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
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1965
Abashiri Prison
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