Jūzō Itami

  • Known for: Director
  • Date of birth: 1933. May 15.
  • Place of birth: Kyoto, Japan

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 elemen...

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