Kazutaka Watanabe
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Kazutaka Watanabe

Fuji, Shizuoka, Japan
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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

Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo
Rohan at the Louvre
SHOWTIME 7
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional
Lost Land
Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in Kyoto
Only Yesterday
Snow Country
Ima da kara, shinsaku drama tsukuttemimashita
Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court
An Artist of the Floating World
Lost Land
The Forest of Sunekosuri
SHOWTIME 7
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional
Rohan at the Louvre
Snow Country
Only Yesterday
An Artist of the Floating World
Space Police
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