
Cast
Directing
Cast
Known for
Directing
Born
1933-05-15
From
Kyoto, Japan
Died
1997-12-20
Also known as Ichizô Itami, Jûzô Itami, Itami Juzo
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.

as Ximen Qing

as Col. Shiba

as Waris

as Self

as (segment "Kusa-Meikyu")

as Ôtake

as Professor Hirayama

as Kawara

as Self

as Ransui Tokunaga

as Tatsuo

as Lawyer


as Narration

as Meitei

as Kenichi Yamamura

as Hanamaki

as Principal / Priest / Old man

as Walking Man

as Self

as Mr. Numata


as Shunji Amemiya

as Iino

as Son of Factory Owner

as Sahei Oumiya

as Dr. Takagi

as Self

as Ryuhei Ochi



as Self

as Itakura


as Takamizawa

as Sozo


as Kumakura

as Self

as Takuji Yoshii

as Hatano


as Self



as Kenji Kijima

as Self (archive footage)

as Sasa


as Self

as Toru

as Self


as Self


as Shinji Sakaguchi

as Self


as Self (archive footage)