Koji Fukada

演劇1

Kazuhiro Soda

Oriza Hirata, Koji Fukada

Theatre 1 (Observational Film Series #3) is a feature length documentary, which closely depicts the world of Oriza Hirata, Japan's leading playwright and director, and his theatrical company, Seinendan. By depicting them, the film leads the audience to revisit fundamental but timely questions: What is theatre? Why do human beings act?

おだやかな日常

Nobuteru Uchida

Kiki Sugino, Yukiko Shinohara

Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who is in a divorce, is worried that her daughter is exposed to radiation. Yukako is also afraid of radiation and tries to convince her husband to move. The two become friends after Yukako tries to save Saeko after a suicide attempt.

Au revoir l'été

Koji Fukada

Fumi Nikaido, Mayu Tsuruta

After failing her university entrance exam, Sakuko is invited by her aunt Mikie to spend summer vacation in a beautiful seaside town. Sakuko gets to know the people of the town, including Takashi, a shy relative of her childhood friend.

いなべ

Koji Fukada

Hiroaki Matsuda, Ami Kurata

After a 17-year absence, a pig farmer’s sister suddenly returns home with her baby. As they remember their childhood, they resolve to dig up “something” they buried long ago.

Harmonium

Koji Fukada

Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.

本気のしるし

Koji Fukada

Win Morisaki, Kaho Tsuchimura

Kazumichi Tsuji is a bored office worker in questionable relationships with two women at work. One day he meets the intriguing Ukiyo Hayama at a convenience store. However, having her in his life brings nothing but trouble.

よこがお

Koji Fukada

Mariko Tsutsui, Mikako Ichikawa

Ichiko works as a private nurse for a family she almost became a part of. While Ichiko cares for the grandmother, she is also a confidant to Motoko, the eldest sister. But one day, Motoko’s younger sister disappears. And the media soon reveal the kidnapper to be Ichiko’s own nephew.

Hospitalité

Koji Fukada

Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino

In this black comedy the lives of a timid small-time printer and his young wife are turned inside out by the arrival of a stranger who moves in and takes over their world. Set in a village-like outpost in the heart of Tokyo, this is a wry commentary on Japanese xenophobia. Kiki Sugino heads a spritely ensemble cast.

Human Comedy in Tokyo

Koji Fukada

Makoto Adachi, Kanji Furutachi

'Human Comedy in Tokyo', describes ordinary everyday lives without any significant incidents. Various dialogues are elaborately woven to bring tiny splits in human relationships to light, and through the three episodes the characters have their moments of realizing that they are actually in solitude.

さようなら

Koji Fukada

Bryerly Long, Hirofumi Arai

The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata and the leading robotics scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Sayonara" is a remakable android play and has been adapted to feature film by the acclaimed filmmaker Koji Fukada (Hospitalité, Au revoir l’été). In this film project the setting of the story is largely expanded, depicting time and space in a way which can only be achieved in film, examining life and death though the communication between dying human and immortal android.

ジェファーソンの東

Koji Fukada

Yuriko Ogino, Tatsuya Kawamura

One rainy night, somewhere in the corner of the city, uncanny memories meet on a motel bed.

海を駆ける

Koji Fukada

Dean Fujioka, Mayu Tsuruta

A man is found washed up on a beach in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, suffering from amnesia and speaking in broken Indonesian and Japanese.

ヤルタ会談オンライン

Koji Fukada

Hiroko Matsuda, Yozo Shimada

Just before the end of World War II, the Yalta Conference was held by the “Big Three” Allied leaders: Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the United States, Winston Churchill of Britain, and Joseph Stalin of the USSR. Japanese theater company Seinendan reimagines their conversations about postwar rule and power as a darkly humorous satire.

鳥 (仮) Tori

Koji Fukada

Minako Inoue, Yuko Kibiki

She insists she needs to know everything and be told the extent of it when a woman catches her husband kissing another woman at their apartment upon returning from the book store. It turns out the man invited the woman in promising to show her his birds.

椅子

Koji Fukada

Minako Inoue, Maiko Moriwaki