Kunitoshi Manda
Japanese filmmaker (born 1956)
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Kunitoshi Manda (万田 邦敏, Manda Kunitoshi; born 1956 in Tokyo) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic.
Biography
Kunitoshi Manda was a student at Rikkyo University, where he took Shigehiko Hasumi's filmology class.[1]
Manda directed his first feature film, Unloved, in 2001.[2] It won the Grand Rail d'Or prize and the Future Talent prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
The Tunnel, one of his television films, screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.[4]
Manda's third feature film, The Kiss, premiered at the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2008.[5] Japanese film critic Inuhiko Yomota praised the film as "a fantastic film."[6]
His 2014 film, Dog's Way, premiered at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.[7]
Filmography
Feature films
- Unloved (2001)
- Thank You (2006)
- The Kiss (2007)
- Dog's Way (2014)
- The Synchronizer (2017)
- Love Mooning (2021)[8]
Short films
- Spaceship Remnant 6 (1996)
- Omokage (2010)
Television
- The Tunnel (2003)
- Tokyo Girl (2008, episode 3)[9]
Bibliography
- Sairishū Tottemo Hazukashi Zemināru (2009)