Education
University of Tokyo.
伊藤 俊也
University of Tokyo.
Itō worked for Toei Company for most of his career. (Galbraith) In 1995 he directed Lupin III: Farewell to Nostradamus. In 1998 he directed the World World War II drama Pride: The Fateful Moment presenting a humane view of Hideki Tōjō on trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
He won a Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Citation for his first film, Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, in 1972. He won Best Picture at the Japanese Academy Awards in 1985 with his film Gray Sunset, a story of a man suffering from Alzheimer"s disease. This thus became Japan"s entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film instead of Akira Kurosawa"s Ran, which caused a slight uproar in Western media as many critics thought Ran had a real chance of winning whereas Gray Sunset was not even shortlisted.
