Fukada Koji

  • Name: Fukada Koji
  • Native name: 深田晃司
  • Also Known as: Kōji Fukada, Kouji Fukada
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: 1980
  • Age: 46
Fukada Koji 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. 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.

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.

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. Edit Biography
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Year Title Type Rating
2026
Movie
0.0
2019
Drama
7.3
Screenwriter & Director
Year Title Type Rating
2025
Movie
7.3
2022
Love Life
Love Life
Movie
7.0
2020
Movie
7.2
2019
Movie
6.9
2018
Movie
7.0
2016
Harmonium
Harmonium
Movie
7.3
2016
Birds
Birds
Movie
2.0
2015
Sayonara
Sayonara
Movie
7.2
2014
Movie
7.0
2011
Movie
6.9
Movie
Year Title Role Rating
2012
Odayaka
Odayaka
Japanese Movie, 2012,
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mask man
Support Role
7.0
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  • Native name: 深田晃司
  • Also Known as: Kōji Fukada, Kouji Fukada
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: 1980
  • Age: 46

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