The Independent - London, December 23rd, 1997
Yoshihiro Ikeuchi (Juzo Itami), actor, film director and writer: born Kyoto, Japan 15 May 1933; married 1960 Kazuko Kawakita (marriage dissolved), 1969 Nobuko Miyamoto (two sons); died Tokyo 20 December 1997.
His father, Mansaku Itami, was a well-known film-maker, scriptwriter and essayist, born in Ehime on the southern island of Shikoku, and there Juzo Itami spent much of his childhood and youth. It was natural that he should follow in his father's footsteps. But from the start he was a rebel against the stifling conventions of Japanese society.
He attended Matsuyama Minami High School, whe...
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