Shunya Ito

Director and screenwriter Shunya It? is a Japanese film director known for starting the Sasori Female Prisoner Scorpion series of 1970s exploitation films starring Meiko Kaji He won Picture of the Year at the Japanese Academy Awards in 1985 with his film Gray Sunset2 a story of a man suffering from Alzheimers disease This thus became Japans entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film instead of Akira Kurosawas 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 Galbraith The above information is sourced from the Shunya It? Wikipedia page