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Name | Jūzō Itami |
Birth date | May 15, 1933 |
Birth place | Kyoto, Japan |
Death date | December 20, 1997 |
Death place | Tokyo, Japan |
Birth name | Yoshihiro Ikeuchi |
Spouse | Kazuko Kawakita (1960–1966)Nobuko Miyamoto (1969–1997) |
, born , was an actor and (later) a popular modern Japanese film director. Many critics came to regard him as Japan's greatest director since Akira Kurosawa. His 10 movies, all of which he wrote himself, are comic satires on elements of Japanese culture.
At the end of the war, when he was in Kyoto, Itami was chosen as an infant prodigy and educated at Tokubetsu Kagaku Gakkyu (; "the special scientific education class") as a future scientist who was expected to defeat the allied powers. Among his fellow students, were the sons of Hideki Yukawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. This class was abolished in March 1947.
He moved from Kyoto to Ehime when he was a high school student. After transferring to the prestigious Matsuyama Higashi High School, where he was known to be able to read works by Arthur Rimbaud in French. But due to his poor academic record, he had to remain in the same class for two years. It was here that he became acquainted with Kenzaburō Ōe, who was going to marry his sister. When it turned out that he could not graduate from Matsuyama Higashi High School, he transferred to Matsuyama Minami High School, from which he graduated.
After failing the entrance exam for the College of Engineering at Osaka University, Itami worked at various times as a commercial designer, a television reporter, a magazine editor, and an essayist. He first acted in Ginza no Dora-Neko (1960) and appeared in various films and television series, including the big-budget Anglo-American film Lord Jim (1965). The most notable movie in which Itami acted may be Yoshimitsu Morita's 1983 movie Kazoku Gēmu (The Family Game).
Itami's wife, Nobuko Miyamoto, is often the star of his movies. Her role tends to be that of an Everywoman figure.
Many consider his death suspicious. Citing unnamed sources, Jake Adelstein of Yomiuri Shimbun, who wrote a number of articles dealing with Japanese yakuza, directly accused Goto of murder. Adelstein stated that Jūzō Itami was planning a new movie about Goto's yakuza faction and its relationship with the religious group Sōka Gakkai and that "A gang of five of his people grabbed Itami and made him jump off a rooftop at gunpoint. That’s how he committed suicide." At the time, the police treated it as a possible homicide. Itami's surviving family have remained silent on the circumstances surrounding his death.
Category:1933 births Category:1997 deaths Category:People from Kyoto (city) Category:Japanese actors Category:Japanese film directors Category:Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year winners Category:Actors who committed suicide Category:Suicides by jumping from a height Category:Suicides in Japan
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