Juzo Itami
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Juzo Itami (May 15, 1933 – December 20, 1997) was an actor and a popular modern Japanese film director. Many critics came to regard him as Japan's greatest director since Akira Kurosawa. His movies, all of which he wrote himself, are comic satires on elements of Japanese culture.
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Filmography
- Marutai no Onna (Woman of the Police Protection Program) (1997)
- Sūpā no Onna (Supermarket Woman) (1996)
- Shizuka na Seikatsu (A Quiet Life) (1995)
- Daibyonin (The Last Dance) (1993)
- Minbo no Onna (Minbo — or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion) (1992)
- A-ge-man (Tales of a Golden Geisha) (1990)
- Marusa no Onna II (A Taxing Woman's Return) (1988)
- Marusa no Onna (A Taxing Woman) (1987)
- Tampopo (1985)
- Ososhiki (The Funeral) (1984)
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