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Mansaku Itami


 

Mansaku Itami (????; 1900-1946) was a Japanese film director. His samurai movies diverged from the norm in that they were not heroic epics of the sort which had by that time become formulaic, but rather satires that used the established symbols and iconography of the samurai culture to comment on both historical and modern society.

Additional Screenwriting Credits

  • Kokushi Muso (1986)
  • Ore wa Yojimbo (I'm the Bodyguard) (1950)
  • Te o Tsunagu Kora (Children Hand in Hand) (1948, 1963)
  • Muhomatsu no Issho (the 1958 version is also known as The Rickshaw Man; the others are also known as The Life of Matsu the Untamed) (1943, 1958, 1965)
  • Hōrō Zanmai (The Wandering Gambler) (1928)
  • Tenka Taiheiki (Peace on Earth) (1928)