Juzo itami biography sample
Juzo itami biography sample
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Juzo Itami
Japanese actor, screenwriter, and film director
Juzo Itami (伊丹 十三, Itami Jūzō), born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi (池内 義弘, Ikeuchi Yoshihiro, May 15, 1933 – December 20, 1997), was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director.
He directed eleven films (one short and ten features), all of which he wrote himself.
He is the namesake of the Juzo Itami Award, founded in 2009 to honor his legacy.
Early life
Itami was born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi in Kyoto.[1] The name Itami was passed on from his father, Mansaku Itami, a renowned satirist and film director before World War II.
In his childhood, he went by the name Takehiko Ikeuchi (池内 岳彦).[2]
At the end of the war, in Kyoto, Itami was chosen as a prodigy and educated in a Tokubetsu Kagaku Gakkyū [ja] ("special scientific education class"), where he began to be trained as a future scientist who was expected to defeat the Allied powers.
Among his fellow students were the sons of Hideki