Kōji Fukada
Kōji Fukada was born 1980 in Koganei, Tokyo is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Most known for his films Harmonium (2016), Love Life (2022) and Love on Trial (2025).
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Kōji Fukada
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · Fukada Koji from "Harmonium" at Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2016 · CC BY 2.0
- Name
- Koji Fukada
- Born
- 1980
- Birthplace
- Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Japan
- Education
- Taisho University
- Honours
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres · Honorary Cyclo d'or
- Languages
- Japanese
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Kōji Fukada was born 1980 in Koganei, Tokyo is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Most known for his films Harmonium (2016), Love Life (2022) and Love on Trial (2025).
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• Name — Koji Fukada • Native Name — 深田 晃司 • Born — 1980 • Birthplace — Koganei, Tokyo, Japan • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter
Career
Career
Born in Tokyo, 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 Film School of Tokyo that 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.
Feature films
• Year — English title — Original title — Notes • 2002 — The Chair — 椅子 • 2008 — Human Comedy in Tokyo — 東京人間喜劇 • 2010 — Hospitalité — 歓待 • 2013 — Au revoir l'été — ほとりの朔子 • 2015 — Sayonara — さようなら • 2016 — Harmonium — 淵に立つ • 2018 — The Man from the Sea — 海を駆ける • 2019 — A Girl Missing — よこがお • 2020 — The Real Thing — 本気のしるし — compilation film of 2019 TV series • 2022 — Love Life • 2025 — Love on Trial — 恋愛裁判 • 2026 — Nagi Notes — ナギダイアリー
Influences
Fukada has said that he was strongly influenced by the films of Eric Rohmer, particularly The Green Ray, and was inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing Children of Paradise and The Spirit of the Beehive.
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Awards
His film Hospitalité won the Best Picture Award 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.
第29回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー 深田晃司 (淵に立つ)
Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan · Fukada Koji from "Harmonium" at Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2016
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- 1.Festival des 3 Continents - Kōji Fukada. www.3continents.com.
- 2.Cédric Lépine. La Grenadière de Balzac adapté en ganimé. blogs.mediapart.fr. 10 janvier 2018.
- 3.Kōji Fukada. www.festival-cabourg.com.
- 4.Elise Domenach. Kobayashi Megumi. « Memento mori ». Entretien avec Koji Fukada à propos de Sayonara. esprit.presse.fr. juillet 2017.
- 5.La nouvelle Grenadière en images et en mots. www.lanouvellerepublique.fr. 12 avril 2012.
- 6.Au revoir l'été (Hotori no sakuko). www.3continents.com.
- 7.Kōji Fukada. www.festival-cabourg.com.
- 8.Mathieu Macheret. Koji Fukada : « Je trouvais assez subversive cette remise en question du concept de femme fatale ». lemonde.fr. 14 mai 2022.
- 9.Pour en savoir plus sur la sélection officielle 2020. festival-cannes.com.
- 10.Cannes 2020 : découvrez les 56 films qui ont obtenu le label du festival, annulé en raison de l'épidémie de Covid-19. France Info. 3 juin 2020.
- 11.Suis-moi, je te fuis. arthouse-films.fr.
- 12.Fuis-moi, je te suis. arthouse-films.fr.
- 13.La Chaise. cinemas-asie.com.
- 14.La Comédie humaine. hanabi.community.
- 15.Inabe. cinemas-asie.com.
- 16.Birds (Tori (Kari)). cinemas-asie.com.
- 17.Le Soupir des vagues - Art House. arthouse-films.fr.
- 18.East of Jefferson (Jefferson no higashi) de Kôji Fukada. cinemas-asie.com.
- 19.Palmares Kinotayo 2008 (archive). 20150924012838. 26 novembre 2008. 3 décembre 2017.
- 20.Historique des palmarès (2006-2014). 20151220055731. www.kinotayo.fr (Archive). 4 août 2019.
- 21.23rd Tokyo International Film festival - List of Winners. 2010.tiff-jp.net.
- 22.Nathan Reneaud. Les Trois Continents 2013 : le palmarès. www.accreds.fr. 23 novembre 2013.
- 23.Festival international de films de Fribourg - Liste des lauréats 2014. www.fiff.ch.
- 24.Harmonium (Fuchi ni tatsu) - site du festival de Cannes
- 25.Remise de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres à M. Koji Fukada [ja]. jp.ambafrance.org. 17 janvier 2019.
- 26.Concorso internazionale : Yokogao (A Girl Missing). Festival international du film de Locarno.
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