Shunya Ito

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.

Directed

1. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972) — Director
2. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972) — Director
3. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973) — Director
4. Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus (1995) — Director
5. Curse of the Dog God (1977) — Director
6. Gray Sunset (1985) — Director
7. White Snake Enchantment (1983) — Director
8. Labyrinth Romanesque (1988) — Director
9. To Trap a Kidnapper (1982) — Director
10. Pride (1998) — Director
11. Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape (1989) — Director
12. 300 Million (2010) — Director
13. Demon Blade: The Assassin Katana of Onimaro (1995) — Director
14. What's a Director? (2006) — Director
15. Independence of Japan (2020) — Director
16. Hajimari mo owari mo nai (2013) — Director