List of the best Juzo Itami movies: Tampopo(1985), The Funeral(1984), Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance(1974), The Makioka Sisters(1983) ... ...
Comedy
Japan
1985
114 Minutes
Director
Tsutomu Yamazaki Nobuko Miyamoto Ken Watanabe Koji Yakusho Rikiya Yasuoka Kinzo Sakura Shuji Otaki
widower shopkeeper stranger inspiring uplifting quirky japan restaurant apartment cooking sex meaning of life discovery 1980s
A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.
Comedy
1984
124 Minutes
Director
Tsutomu Yamazaki Nobuko Miyamoto Kin Sugai
husband wife father priest amusing outlandish lighthearted madcap tokyo house hospital funeral family tradition modernity dysfunction wealth quest wretched excess 1980s
The loved one's daughter (Nobuko Miyamoto) and son-in-law (Tsutomu Yamazaki) try to arrange a traditional Japanese funeral.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
1974
89 Minutes
Meiko Kaji Juzo Itami Kazuko Yoshiyuki Yoshio Harada Shin Kishida Tôru Abe Rin'ichi Yamamoto Kôji Nanbara
Yuki is imprisoned and sentenced to be hanged. Before she meets her death, she is recruited into the secret police and becomes caught in a web of corruption, assassination and coercion.
Drama
Japan
1983
140 Minutes
Tatsuo
Keiko Kishi Yoshiko Sakuma Sayuri Yoshinaga Yûko Kotegawa Juzo Itami Koji Ishizaka
sister wife rebel bank employee accountant daughter amusing charming melodramatic osaka, japan family home sister relationship marriage world war ii occupation shyness social standing adventure love rivalry
The orphaned Makioka sisters look for a husband for their third sister, Yukiko, as the rebellious youngest sister, Taeko, is kept waiting her turn.