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born November 10, 1948 is a Japanese people copywriter, essayist, lyricist, game designer, and actor. Itoi is the editor-in-chief of his website and company Hobonichi ("Almost Daily Itoi Newspaper"). He is best known outside Japan for his work on Nintendo's Mother series of games, as well as his self-titled bass fishing video game.
In 1997, Itoi began using the Internet and bought his first Macintosh. In 1998 he started the website and company Hobonichi ("Almost Daily Itoi Newspaper"), which is the center of his activity today. Under the theme of "creating good mood", the website has been updated every day for the past 15 years, with Itoi's essays on lifestyle, interviews and articles, and merchandise sales. He talks about his pet dogs and his interviews with artists, craftsmen, businessmen, etc., which tend to center on philosophical issues. Itoi has co-written several books modeled on these interviews, in which he has a series of long conversations with, for example, an expert on neurology Yūji Ikegaya, about how to live as a human being in the world. Books collecting Itoi's past essays written on the site's front page are also available for purchase.
| + !Year !Film title !Role !Notes | |||
| 1984 | Scrap: A Love Story | Detective | |
| 1987 | Guys Who Never Learn | ||
| Shigesato Itoi's TV GAME MUSEUM | Host | TV Special | |
| 1988 | My Neighbor Totoro | Tatsuo Kusakabe | Voice role |
| 1989 | Gaki no tsukai ya arahende!! | Self | Television |
| 1991 | My Soul is Slashed | Inohara | |
| 1992 | Super Folk Song: Piano Ga Aishita Onna | Self | Documentary |
| 1997 | Ishoku Manga-shi 33-nen no Kiseki ~ Garo no Jidai o Yomu | TV documentary | |
| 2002 | Tsuki ni shizumu | Doctor | TV movie |
| 2009 | Bokura no jidai | Self | Television |
| Kyôiku terebi no gyakushû: Yomigaeru kyoshô no kotoba | |||
| 2010 | Norwegian Wood | Professor | |
| 2012 | Shin 13 no kao wo motsu otoko | Self | Documentary mini-series |
| Tabi no chikara | |||
| 2015 | Yoru Tamori | Mini-series | |
| 2016 | Chimata no hanashi |
Itoi claims that the final battle of EarthBound with Giygas was inspired from his accidental childhood viewing of the Shintoho film titled The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty. Specifically, the scene that inspired the battle was a scene depicting a woman being murdered, which he mistook for rape.
Itoi has said that he would not be involved in a fourth title of the series. Itoi's works have had an impact on other games and other media, including Undertale, and others.
| Mother | Director, game designer, writer | |
| Monopoly | Producer | |
| 1994 | EarthBound | Director, producer, writer, Saturn font concept, sampling voice |
| The Monopoly Game 2 | Supervisor | |
| 1997 | Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No. 1 | Original concept, supervisor |
| 2006 | Mother 3 | Story, scenario, message |
| N/A | Cabbage | Designer |
Itoi is an avid Monopoly player and is President of the Nihon Monopoly Kyōkai. He also competed in the 1992 Monopoly World Championships and placed eighth. Itoi's video game development company Ape, Inc. developed two Monopoly games for the Super Famicom, with Itoi serving as producer. These versions of Monopoly were not released outside of Japan and featured a more role-playing experience.
Itoi launched a photo creation tool called "Dokonoko", which is designed specifically to be used with pets. It has been described as an "Instagram for pets". Dokonoko is most famous for a particular Japanese Labrador Retriever named Corky, who made front line news because of the abnormal length of her tongue.
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