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In Reply to: Any Juzo Itami fans? posted by croft on February 18, 2004 at 20:37:48:
Itami Juzo was undoubtedly murdered for revealing a little too much of the rotten core of Japanese societyHis 1997 "suicide" where he was frogmarched off the top of a building was pure fiction preceded by a magazine scandal revealing his affair with a younger woman, (which was just as much of a fiction)
Watch; Minbo No Onna (Mob Woman) and you will see the filmmaker totally demythologising the Japanese Yakuza from their typical screen persona of the latter day samurai/robin hood to the cheap scheming vermin they really are; Juzo had his face slashed by an angry mobster after this films debut screening; cinema screens were slashed by mobsters all over Japan where this film played and he received death threats all the rest of his life for making this (its wonderful, BTW!)
Here was a filmmaker that was immensely brave and talented, who undoubtedly died for his craft; his themes are well researched, his actors are the best
Don't know where you will find any other than the handful of his films that are available subtitled or dubbed, I live in Japan and get asked this question all the time
Graham
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Follow Ups
- Itami Juzo - grinagog 21:19:55 02/18/04 (2)
- Re: Itami Juzo - croft 21:54:16 02/18/04 (1)
- Yes Nabuko was his wife (really!) - grinagog 23:16:41 02/18/04 (0)
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