Jūzō Itami Movies

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves...

Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.

Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film...

Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.

Jūzō Itami's debut short film, concerning a group of unique young people in the high economic growth period who are into games with rubber...

Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).

A TV film based on the kidnapping and murder of 4 year old Yoshinobu Murakoshi.

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Daibyonin" a.k.a. "The Last Dance".

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Marusa no Onna 2" a.k.a. "A Taxing Woman's Return".

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Minbo no Onna" a.k.a. "Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion".

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "A-Ge-Man" a.k.a. "Tales of a Golden Geisha".