Director
Jūzō Itami
93 years · Kyoto, Japan · 68 films
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.
Best known for
Tampopo
1985 · Producer, Screenplay
On HBO Max
55 Days at Peking
1963 · Col. Shiba
On Tubi TV
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
1974 · Ransui Tokunaga
Lord Jim
1965 · Waris
On YouTube Free
A Taxing Woman's Return
1988 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
The Funeral
1984 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
Filmography 68
Itami Juzo Museum's "13"
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Juzo Itami: The Man with 13 Faces
2007 · Self (archive footage)
北の国から 記憶 前編
2003 · Actor
Woman in Witness Protection
1997 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
Supermarket Woman
1996 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
A Quiet Life
1995 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
The Last Dance
1993 · Director, Screenplay
Making of Daibyonin
1993 · Self
Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
1992 · Writer, Director
On Criterion Channel
Convenience Jack
1992 · Actor
The Making of "Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion"
1992 · Self
Shirayuri Girls' Academy Western Archery Club: A Silver Target
1991 · Actor
Tales of a Golden Geisha
1990 · Director, Writer
The Making of "Tales of a Golden Geisha"
1990 · Self
Great SFX Adventure: Take Me to 'Sweet Home'
1989 · Self
Sweet Home
1989 · Kenichi Yamamura
The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
1988 · Self
A Taxing Woman's Return
1988 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel
The Making of "A Taxing Woman"
1987 · Self
A Taxing Woman
1987 · Writer, Director
On Criterion Channel
The Making of "Tampopo"
1986 · Self
On Criterion Channel
Tampopo
1985 · Producer, Screenplay
On HBO Max
Bumpkin Soup
1985 · Professor Hirayama
The Funeral
1984 · Director, Screenplay
On Criterion Channel