Jūzō Itami

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

8.593

Gender

Male

Birthday

15-May-1933

Age

(91 years old)

Place of Birth

Kyoto, Japan

Also Known As
  • Ichizô Itami
  • Jûzô Itami
  • 이타미 주조
  • Itami Juzo
  • Itami Jūzō
  • Yoshihiro Ikeuchi
  • Ikeuchi Yoshihiro
  • 池内義弘
  • Itami Juuzou
  • Juuzou Itami
  • Juzo Itami

Jūzō Itami

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.


Credits

ごろつき部隊 ごろつき部隊 (1969) Character: N/A
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
偽大学生 偽大学生 (1960) Character: Sozo
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
おとうと おとうと (1960) Character: Son of Factory Owner
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
わが道 わが道 (1974) Character: Dr. Takagi
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
The Big Wave The Big Wave (1961) Character: Toru
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister Setsu follows then and dreams of becoming a pearl diver. Toru is preparing to go fishing with his father when a bell tolls and a danger flag is hung high on the hill behind the village to warn of an impending tidal wave by the village patriarch, known as Old Gentleman.
やさしいにっぽん人 やさしいにっぽん人 (1971) Character: N/A
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.
甘い秘密 甘い秘密 (1971) Character: N/A
A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.
マルサの女をマルサする マルサの女をマルサする (1987) Character: Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna" a.k.a. "A Taxing Woman".
マルサの女2をマルサする マルサの女2をマルサする (1988) Character: Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna 2" a.k.a. "A Taxing Woman's Return".
大病人の大現場 大病人の大現場 (1993) Character: Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Daibyonin" a.k.a. "The Last Dance".
[あげまん]可愛い女の演出術 [あげまん]可愛い女の演出術 (1990) Character: Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "A-Ge-Man" a.k.a. "Tales of a Golden Geisha".
ミンボーなんて怖くない ミンボーなんて怖くない (1992) Character: Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Minbo no Onna" a.k.a. "Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion".
伊丹十三記念館の“13” 伊丹十三記念館の“13” (2011) Character: Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the Juzo Itami memorial museum in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture on the island of Shikoku, Japan.
「美しき静かな生活」+ 撮影現場訪問記 「美しき静かな生活」+ 撮影現場訪問記 (2012) Character: Self
A special feature included with the Juzo Itami Film Collection about the production of "Shizuka na Seikatsu" a.k.a. "A Quiet Life".
『マルタイの女』撮影を終えて 『マルタイの女』撮影を終えて (2012) Character: Self
A special feature included with the Juzo Itami Film Collection about the production of "Marutai no Onna" a.k.a. "Woman in Witness Protection".
伊丹流スーパーなスーパーマーケットができるまで 伊丹流スーパーなスーパーマーケットができるまで (2012) Character: Self
A special feature included with the Juzo Itami Film Collection about the production of "Super no Onna" a.k.a. "Supermarkt Woman".
伊丹十三記念館ができるまで 伊丹十三記念館ができるまで (2007) Character: Self
Featurette included with "Juzo Itami: The Man with 13 Faces" about the creation of the Itami Juzo Museum in Matsuyama, Ehime.
非行少年 若者の砦 非行少年 若者の砦 (1970) Character: N/A
A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.
Collections privées Collections privées (1979) Character: (segment "Kusa-Meikyu")
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?
夕暮まで 夕暮まで (1980) Character: Sasa
Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.
金瓶梅 金瓶梅 (1968) Character: Ximen Qing
Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and interesting for to compare to "Yojimbo" and other masterworks of the form.
執炎 執炎 (1964) Character: Takuji Yoshii
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war.
人間魚雷 あゝ回天特別攻撃隊 人間魚雷 あゝ回天特別攻撃隊 (1968) Character: N/A
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
あゝ予科練 あゝ予科練 (1968) Character: N/A
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
悪霊島 悪霊島 (1981) Character: Ryuhei Ochi
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.
スローなブギにしてくれ スローなブギにしてくれ (1981) Character: Lawyer
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.
かげろう かげろう (1969) Character: Iino
Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.
ゴムデッポウ ゴムデッポウ (1962) Character: N/A
Jūzō Itami's debut short film, concerning a group of unique young people in the high economic growth period who are into games with rubber band pistols.
修羅雪姫 怨み恋歌 修羅雪姫 怨み恋歌 (1974) Character: Ransui Tokunaga
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
瀬戸内少年野球団 瀬戸内少年野球団 (1984) Character: Hatano
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the sudden occupation of General MacArthur and his troops.
仕掛人梅安 仕掛人梅安 (1981) Character: Sahei Oumiya
This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki actor brothers Kinnosuke Manya and Katsuo Nakamura, who made the transition from the Kabuki world to the film industry, and a cast of gorgeous and diverse faces. The Edo period. Nagato Abe, a Hatamoto (a feudal lord), is annoyed by his son's bad behavior, and when it becomes a hindrance to his own career, he asks Otowaya Hanemon, a black marketeer, to assassinate his son. The target is then taken care of by the assassin, Umeyasu. In order to keep his mouth shut, Nagatomon no Mamoru also attempts to take Otowaya's life. Nagato's brother-in-law, Omiya Sahei, a corrupt merchant from the Kamigata region, also plans to replace Otowaya as the head of Edo's black market business, so Umebayashi and his fellow trapper Hikojiro set out to eliminate them.
栄光への5000キロ 栄光への5000キロ (1969) Character: N/A
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story concerning Godai's former lover Yuko (Ruriko Asaoka), a fashion designer, and her friend Anna (Emmanuel Riva), who happens to be Pierre's wife.
吾輩は猫である 吾輩は猫である (1975) Character: Meitei
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!
もう頬づえはつかない もう頬づえはつかない (1979) Character: Takamizawa
Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork. She finds herself torn between a former boyfriend who's the tough, insensitive-but-sexy, type, and a new acquaintance who's more sensitive to her feelings, but who still acts childishly selfish at times. Will she choose one of them, or decide to go her own way?
男の顔は履歴書 男の顔は履歴書 (1966) Character: Shunji Amemiya
Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.
ドレミファ娘の血は騒ぐ ドレミファ娘の血は騒ぐ (1985) Character: Professor Hirayama
A country girl visits Tokyo in search of her college heartthrob. Here she meets horny students, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and Yoshioka who has become a campus nobody.
懲役十八年 仮出獄 懲役十八年 仮出獄 (1967) Character: Kenji Kijima
Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
Lord Jim Lord Jim (1965) Character: Waris
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.
伊丹十三の「タンポポ」撮影日記 伊丹十三の「タンポポ」撮影日記 (1986) Character: Self
Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).
草迷宮 草迷宮 (1979) Character: Principal / Priest / Old man
Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. The young man ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in which aspects from his childhood and adulthood mix together. In this never-never land he comes across a beautiful woman/witch who is lost inside the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.
スウィートホーム スウィートホーム (1989) Character: Kenichi Yamamura
A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.
キッドナップ・ブルース キッドナップ・ブルース (1982) Character: Walking Man
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
黒い十人の女 黒い十人の女 (1961) Character: Hanamaki
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.
C(コンビニエンス)・ジャック C(コンビニエンス)・ジャック (1992) Character: N/A
A youth action drama depicting the struggles of a young man who gets involved in an extraordinary incident at a convenience store. This film is based on the novel of the same name written by Asato Izumi, written and directed by newcomer Hisashi Toma. Isamu Nagata of “Asatte DANCE” was in charge of the photography.
白百合女学園洋弓部 白銀の標的 白百合女学園洋弓部 白銀の標的 (1991) Character: N/A
An archery club on retreat in Hokkaido is forced to rescue their teacher who is kidnapped.
日本春歌考 日本春歌考 (1967) Character: Ôtake
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.
55 Days at Peking 55 Days at Peking (1963) Character: Col. Shiba
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
細雪 細雪 (1983) Character: Tatsuo
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.
家族ゲーム 家族ゲーム (1983) Character: Mr. Numata
A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired. The tutor, played by the prototypical bad boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart.
居酒屋兆治 居酒屋兆治 (1983) Character: Kawara
Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.
13の顔を持つ男-伊丹十三の肖像 13の顔を持つ男-伊丹十三の肖像 (2007) Character: Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the legendary Japanese filmmaker.



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