KÅ ji Fukada (æ·±ç"° æ™ƒå ¸, Fukada KÅ ji, born 1980, in Koganei,
Tokyo) 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.
Tokyo) 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.
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