is a Japanese

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and

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Career

Born in

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, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the

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that he began taking evening classes in filmmaking. One of his teachers was

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre, his honorific ...

. He made his first feature-length film, ''The Chair'', in 2002. He joined the Seinendan theater troupe, headed by

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, in 2005, and has often used their work and their actors in his films.

Influences

Fukada has said that he was strongly influenced by the films of

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, particularly '' The Green Ray'', and was inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing '' Children of Paradise'' and ''

The Spirit of the Beehive ''The Spirit of the Beehive'' (Spanish: ''El espíritu de la colmena'') is a 1973 Spanish drama film directed by Víctor Erice. The film was Erice's debut and is considered a masterpiece of Spanish cinema. The film focuses on a young girl named ...

''.

Awards

His film '' Hospitalité'' won the Best Picture Award in the Japanese Eyes competition of the

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in 2010. '' Au revoir l'été'' won the grand prize and the prize of the young jury at the

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'' won the Prix du Jury in the

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section of the

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Filmography

* ''The Chair'' (2002) * '' Hospitalité'' (2010) * ''Au revoir l'été'' (2013) * ''

Sayonara ''Sayonara'' is a 1957 American Technicolor drama film starring Marlon Brando in Technirama. It tells the story of an American Air Force fighter pilot during the Korean War who falls in love with a famous Japanese dancer. The picture won four Ac ...

'' (2015) * ''

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'' (2016) * ''The Man from the Sea'' (2018) * ''

A Girl Missing is a 2019 drama film written and directed by Kōji Fukada. It was entered into numerous international film festivals, including Locarno, Toronto, New York and Rotterdam. Plot Home nurse Ichiko works for the Oishi family, where she is treated a ...

'' (2019) * ''The Real Thing'' (2020,

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of 2019 TV series) * '' Love Life'' (2022)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fukada, Koji Japanese film directors Japanese screenwriters 1980 births Living people People from Koganei, Tokyo