Jūzō Itami

Naissance

15 mai 1933 · Kyoto, Japan

Décès

20 décembre 1997

• Acteur
• Scénariste
• Réalisateur

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.