FILM DIRECTOR

Juzo Itami

1933 - 1997

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Juzo Itami (伊丹 十三, Itami Jūzō), born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi (池内 義弘, Ikeuchi Yoshihiro, May 15, 1933 – December 20, 1997), was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juzo Itami has received more than 484,554 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Juzo Itami is the 582nd most popular film director (down from 552nd in 2019), the 864th most popular biography from Japan (down from 815th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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  • 15

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  • 3.09

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Juzo Itami ranks 582 out of 2,041. Before him are Rintaro, Frederick Wiseman, Budd Boetticher, Henri Colpi, Carlo Lizzani, and Ján Kadár. After him are Jaco Van Dormael, Michael Powell, Bernd Eichinger, Ferzan Özpetek, Fatih Akin, and Asghar Farhadi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Juzo Itami ranks 203. Before him are Meena Kumari, Syd Mead, Jesús Gil, Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, Doyle Brunson, and Sergio Endrigo. After him are Robert Shavlakadze, Ron Wyatt, Robert Blake, Gloria Foster, Ray Dolby, and Evaristo de Macedo. Among people deceased in 1997, Juzo Itami ranks 127. Before him are Georges Marchais, Francisco Aramburu, K. Shivaram Karanth, Dick van Dijk, Adil Çarçani, and Cheddi Jagan. After him are Josef Posipal, Eugene Stoner, Lam Ching-ying, Alexander Kazhdan, Stanley Schachter, and Andrei Sinyavsky.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Juzo Itami ranks 864 out of 6,245. Before him are Ichiro Hosotani (1946), Akio Toyoda (1956), Ken Naganuma (1930), Asakura Yoshikage (1533), Yutaka Taniyama (1927), and Prince Tomohito of Mikasa (1946). After him are Arima Harunobu (1567), Utagawa Toyokuni (1769), Keiichi Tsuchiya (1956), Koichi Tohei (1920), Ashikaga Yoshikatsu (1434), and Koichi Sugiyama (1931).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Juzo Itami ranks 30. Before him are Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), Seijun Suzuki (1923), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), Osamu Dezaki (1943), and Rintaro (1941). After him are Mamoru Hosoda (1967), Yoji Yamada (1931), Keisuke Kinoshita (1912), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910), and Yasuzo Masumura (1924).

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Filmography

Tampopo
Director
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
Nov 23rd 19857.9 / 10
The Funeral
Director
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
Nov 17th 19847.2 / 10
A Taxing Woman
Director
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
Feb 7th 19876.818 / 10