Jūzō Itami — Actor (27)
Rubber Band Pistol (1962) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
ゴムデッポウ
director: Jūzō Itami actor: Akira Ichimura / Jūzō Itami
other title: ゴムデッポウ
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 band pistols.
Sing a Song of Sex (1967) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData
日本春歌考
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Ichiro Araki / Jūzō Itami
other title: Sulle canzoni sconce giapponesi / À propos des chansons paillardes au Japon
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.
The Family Game (1983) [Movie] Douban WikiData NeoDB TMDB IMDb
家族ゲーム
other title: Jeu de famille / 家族ゲーム
A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired. The tutor, played by the prototypical bad boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart.
Grass Labyrinth (1979) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
草迷宮
director: Shūji Terayama actor: Hiroshi Mikami / Takeshi Wakamatsu
other title: Le Labyrinthe d'herbes / 草迷宮
Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. The young man ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in which aspects from his childhood and adulthood mix together. In this never-never land he comes across a beautiful woman/witch who is lost inside the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.