As Director, As Writer
Love Life
2022
7.2
Koji Fukada
Acting
Birth Date
January 5, 1980
Place of Birth
Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Koji Fukada (深田 晃司, born 1980) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. When he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the Film School of Tokyo, he began taking evening classes in filmmaking. One of his teachers was Kiyoshi Kurosawa. He made his first feature-length film, The Chair, in 2002. He joined the Seinendan theater troupe, headed by Oriza Hirata, in 2005, and has often used their work and their actors in his films. His film Hospitalité won Best Picture in the Japanese Eyes competition of the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2010. Au revoir l'été won the grand prize and the prize of the young jury at the Three Continents Festival in 2013 and his 2016 film Harmonium won the Prix du Jury in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Koji Fukada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Complete Filmography
As Director, As Writer
The Real Thing
2020
6.6
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A Girl Missing
2019
6.6
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East of Jefferson
2018
8.0
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The Man from the Sea
2018
5.8
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Birds (Working Title)
2017
1.0
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Sayonara
2015
5.9
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Inabe
2013
6.7
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Au revoir l'été
2013
6.6
As Actor
Theatre 1
2012
5.0
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Hospitalité
2011
6.1
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Human Comedy in Tokyo
2008
5.5