Koji Fukada
Japanese film director and writer (born 1980)
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Koji Fukada (深田 晃司, Fukada Kōji; 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).
Koji Fukada | |
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| 深田 晃司 | |
![](#/media/File:Fukada_Koji_from_"Harmonium"_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2016_(32799558474).jpg) Koji Fukada in 2016 | |
| Born | 1980 (age 45–46) |
| Occupations | Film director, 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 Film School of Tokyo 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 Seinendan 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]
Filmography
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 | [5] | |
| 2025 | Love on Trial | 恋愛裁判 | [6] |
| 2026 | Nagi Notes | ナギダイアリー | [7] |
Awards
His film Hospitalité won the Best Picture Award in the Japanese Eyes competition of the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2010.[8] Au revoir l'été won the grand prize and the prize of the young jury at the Three Continents Festival in 2013.[9] And his 2016 film Harmonium won the Prix du Jury in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.[10]