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11 ago 2020 · Juzo Itami, a renowned television and movie actor, made a late-career shift into directing and screenwriting – at the age of 50 – and went on to become one of the formally and thematically original voices of Japanese cinema. Internationally known for his ‘noodle western’ Tampopo (1985), Mr. Itami directed ten feature films between 1984 and his tragic suicide in 1997 (though contentious ...
Jûzô Itami. Actor, Writer, Director, Producer. Born May 15, 1933 in Kyoto, Japan. A tragic end belies a life led with purpose. The son of a successful filmmaker, Juzo Itami made his name acting in television and films before making a late career shift into screenwriting and directing at age 50. Known to choose the subjects of his films ...
30 ago 1992 · Mr. Itami is clearly trying to explore what he regards as some of the more penetrating themes of Japanese society, but he did admit to some discouragement. The film industry in Japan is shrinking.
19 giu 2022 · Juzo Itami’s debut feature film, 1984’s The Funeral, receives a Blu-ray edition from The Criterion Collection and is presented in the aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on a dual-layer disc. The 1080p/24hz high-definition master was supplied to Criterion by Itami Productions.
International posters for the newly resurrected Japanese noodle western arthouse smash of the ’80s.
17 mag 2022 · So it only makes sense that a satirist like Juzo Itami, son of a well-known prewar director of comical samurai films, would have scandalous fun with this most solemn of rites in a rite-bound society. And that he would use a funeral as a way to get at the treacherous gap that regularly separates public emotion from real feeling.
4 mar 2013 · Itami was born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi in 1933 but as an adult took his stage name from his father, the pre-World War II satiric writer/director Mansaku Itami. Fear of working under the shadow of the elder’s reputation partially explains what held him back from starting his own directorial career in 1984, at the age of 50. Before then, he took on a wide variety of public positions in the arts ...
