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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

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.

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)

Fukada Koji at IFFR

  • Love on Trial

    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

    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 prot

    • Spectrum

  • A Girl Missing

    Calm drama. Madness and vengeance take possession of nurse Ichiko after her nephew is suspected of a kidnapping.

    • Limelight

  • Harmonium

    This home invasion thriller masquerades as a family drama about gnawing guilt and revenge. A family reluctantly takes in a mysterious man (Asano Tadan

    • Limelight

  • Sayonara

    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

    • ID: The Generic Self
    • Voices
    • VPRO Big Screen Award

  • Hospitalité

    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

    • Spectrum

  • Birds (beta)

    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 heights of absurdity. When it comes to love, sometimes we all feel like birds in a cage. Screens before Harmonium.

    • Voices Short