Jūzō Itami

Jūzō Itami 19331997 was a Japanese actor and later a popular modern screenwriter and film director Many critics came to regard him as Japans greatest director since Akira Kurosawa His ten featurelength 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

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D.O.B: 1933-05-15
D.O.D: 1997-12-20
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Profession: Directing

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