Kōji Fukada
Kōji Fukada | |
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![]() Kōji Fukada in 2016 | |
Born | 1980 (age 40–41) |
Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
Kōji Fukada (深田 晃司, Fukada Kōji, born 1980, in Koganei, Tokyo) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Career[]
Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young.[1][2] It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the that he began taking evening classes in filmmaking. One of his teachers was Kiyoshi Kurosawa.[1][2][3] He made his first feature length film, The Chair, in 2002.[4] He joined the theater troupe, headed by Oriza Hirata, in 2005, and has often used their work and their actors in his films.[1][2]
Influences[]
Fukada has said that he was strongly influenced by the films of Eric Rohmer, particularly The Green Ray,[1] and was inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing Children of Paradise and The Spirit of the Beehive.[2]
Awards[]
His film Hospitalité won the Best Picture Award in the Japanese Eyes competition of the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2010.[5] won the grand prize and the prize of the young jury at the Three Continents Festival in 2013.[6] And his 2016 film Harmonium won the Prix du Jury in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.[7]
Selected filmography[]
- The Chair (2002)
- Hospitalité (2010)
- Au Revoir L'Été (2013)
- Sayonara (2015)
- Harmonium (2016)
- A Girl Missing (2019)
Writings[]
"Ozu Yasujiro to Kazoku no Koei" in Ozu Yasujiro Taizen (The Complete Book of Ozu Yasujiro) by Matsuura Kanji and Miyamoto Akiko (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. 2019) ISBN 9784022515995[8]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Lee, Edmund (12 April 2017). "Koji Fukada on graduating from theatre to become a Cannes winner". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Japanese winner of Cannes Jury Prize directs movies based on theater experience". Mainichi Daily News. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ Marx, René (11 May 2017). "Critique ESRA Sayonara de Kôji Fukada". Avant-Scène Cinéma (in French). Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ Domenach, Elise. "« Memento mori ». Entretien avec Koji Fukada à propos de Sayonara". Esprit (in French). Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ "23rd TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL List of Winners". Tokyo International Film Festival. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ "LES TROIS CONTINENTS 2013 : le palmarès". Accréds (in French). 25 November 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ "Cannes Interview: Kôji Fukada". Film Comment. 22 May 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ "小津安二郎大全 = OZU".
External links[]
- Kōji Fukada at IMDb
- Japanese film directors
- Japanese screenwriters
- 1980 births
- Living people
- People from Koganei, Tokyo