Jūzō Itami — Actor (27)

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Rubber Band Pistol (1962) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
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.

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Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
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.

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The Family Game (1983)
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.

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Grass Labyrinth (1979)
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.