article_title name birth_date occupation
shunya itō
 shunya itō 17 february 1937 film director
shunya itō

he won best picture at the japanese academy awards in 1985 with his film `` gray sunset '' , a story of a man suffering from alzheimer 's disease .
this thus became japan 's entry for the academy award for best foreign language film instead of akira kurosawa 's `` 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 .
-lrb- galbraith -rrb- in 1995 he directed '' '' .
in 1998 he directed the world war ii drama `` pride : the fateful moment '' presenting a humane view of hideki tōjō on trial at the international military tribunal for the far east .
