Fukada Koji
FUKADA Koji (1980, Japan) began making independent films as a student. His first work to achieve international recognition was Hospitalité in 2010. In 2016, he won the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard Cannes International Film Festival for Harmonium. He has made films constantly since then, and was awarded the Order of the Chevalier in France in 2018 for his work. His film version of his original TV series The Real Thing was officially selected at Cannes in 2020. Apart from working as a director, he is active as an activist and advocate for Japanese Independent Cinema. He was one of the founders of the Japanese Independent Film Guild (Eiga Nabe). With director Hamaguchi Ryusuke, he ran a crowdfunding campaign to help independent film theatres survive the Covid pandemic. His latest project, Love on Trial (2025), a CineMart-presented film, had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Filmography
The Chair (2004), La grenadière (2006, short), Tokyo ningen kigeki/Human Comedy in Tokyo (2009), Kantai/Hospitalité (2010), Hotori no sakuko/Au revoir l’été (2013), Inabe (2013, short), Sayonara (2015), Fuchi ni tatsu/Harmonium (2016), Tori (kari)/Birds (2016), Umi wo kakeru/The Man from the Sea (2018), Yokogao/A Girl Missing (2019), The Real Thing (2020), Love on Trial (2025).
Fukada Koji at IFFR
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Love on Trial
Fukada Koji | 120' | France |
An idol singer falls in love with a friend from secondary school. Despite her effort to keep their relationship secret, it gets exposed and her m -
Au revoir l’été
Fukada Koji | 125' | Japan | None
A Japanese film with a French title, and just as lightfootedly psychological and en-passant intelligent as French films can be. If the film has a… -
A Girl Missing
Fukada Koji | 111' | France | None
Calm drama. Madness and vengeance take possession of nurse Ichiko after her nephew is suspected of a kidnapping. -
Sayonara
Fukada Koji | 112' | Japan | International premiere
Japan after the nuclear disaster. A lonely girl is waiting for the evacuation together with her only friend, a female android that is almost indisting -
Hospitalité
Fukada Koji | 96' | Japan | International première
Tokyo is bigger and different from what people often think. Some neighbourhoods are like forgotten villages. One of these is home to a hard-working fa -
Birds (beta)
Fukada Koji | 7' | Japan | International premiere
This short and sweet film by Fukada Koji is a comedy about a confrontation between a wife, her husband and a lover that reaches unexpected…
