1985Winner
Best Director
Tampopo
Jūzō Itami
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Kyoto, Japan
May 15, 1933
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1965Nominee
Best Performance
Lord Jim
1963Nominee
Best Performance
55 Days at Peking
Career Highlights
1987Highlight
Best Director
A Taxing Woman
1984Highlight
Best Director
The Funeral