Toge no Gunzo
1982
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Directing
Jūzō Itami
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.
Filmography
Browse movies and TV shows featuring Jūzō Itami
55 Days at Peking
1963
star 6.9
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compou...
Sing a Song of Sex
1967
star 5.8
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebria...
Kodawari Otoko to Marusa no Onna
2012
star 3.5
2012 NHK drama based on the Juzo Itami film "A Taxing Woman" (Marusa no Onna).
Ten Dark Women
1961
star 5.8
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woma...
The Makioka Sisters
1983
star 7.4
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view...
Her Brother
1960
star 7.1
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family...
Play it, Boogie-Woogie
1981
star 8.0
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. Th...
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
1974
star 6.4
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she...
Choji Snack Bar
1983
star 7.8
Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the l...
The Family Game
1983
star 6.8
A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a ho...
Bumpkin Soup
1985
star 5.1
Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, s...
The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
1968
star 7.7
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about be...
Sweet Home
1989
star 6.4
Working on a documentary about infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro, a TV crew filming at his old home come under att...
Island of the Evil Spirits
1981
star 6.2
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful...
Lord Jim
1965
star 6.8
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Prese...
My Way
1974
star 6.0
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dea...
Kidnapping Blues
1982
star 8.0
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, an...
MacArthur's Children
1984
star 5.5
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to term...
Human Torpedoes
1968
star 7.0
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
I Am a Cat
1975
star 4.0
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and te...
Safari 5000
1969
star 7.3
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pie...
No More Easy Life
1979
star 7.3
Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time bala...
Grass Labyrinth
1979
star 7.2
Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and...
The Notorious Concubines
1968
star 4.0
Based on the Chinese classic "Jin Ping Mei". Original Japanese cut directed by Koji Wakamatsu and produced by S...
Baian the Assassin
1981
star 8.0
This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki acto...
The Politicians
1983
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue...
Team of Ruffians
1969
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
Parole
1967
star 9.0
Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
Heat Wave Island
1969
star 7.0
Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work,...
The Flame of Devotion
1964
star 6.8
The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and...
The Making of "A Taxing Woman's Return"
1988
star 5.1
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna 2" a.k.a. "A Taxing Woman'...
Kirai Kirai Kirai
1960
The Gentle Japanese
1971
star 10.0
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle en...
Make-Up
1984
star 10.0
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
1966
star 8.5
Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only...