Kazutaka Watanabe
- Directing
- Fuji, Shizuoka, Japan
Biography
Kazutaka Watanabe worked in a range of film industry and film festival positions before establishing his company, E.x.N K.K., in 2014 to plan and produce films from A to Z. He had produced 3 features, 2 are co-production, and 1 short film. Since 2017, he works as a coordinator at Rough Cut program in Yamagata International Documentary FF. He once in a while holds screening workshops for the locals in Japan to experience what it is like to observe films/footages, he met while working. E.x.N K.K. is a Film Production that plans, produces, and makes subtitles for films and audiovisual media. It creates films from international and local perspectives in Asia using a style unbound by country or nationality. He is known for directing the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020) as well as Rohan at the Louvre (2023).
Known for
Filmography
- Lost Land · Producer
- The Forest of Sunekosuri · Director, Screenplay
- Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in Kyoto · Director
- Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo · Director
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional · Director
- SHOWTIME 7 · Director, Screenplay
- Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court · Director
- Rohan at the Louvre · Kyoka's Father, Director
- Snow Country · Director
- 雪国 -SNOW COUNTRY- · Director
- Only Yesterday · Director
- Ima da kara, shinsaku drama tsukuttemimashita · Director
- An Artist of the Floating World · Director
- The Auditor · Director
- Keiji no Genba · Director
- Space Police · Director
- Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations · Director