Jūzō Itami

Jūzō Itami

Directing 1 horror film in catalog · Born May 15, 1933 · Died December 20, 1997 · 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 elements o...