
Kazutaka Watanabe
- Place of birth
- 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).
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Filmography
- 2026Lost LandFilm · Producer

- 2026The Forest of SunekosuriFilm · Director, Screenplay

- 2026Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in KyotoSeries · Director

- 2026Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in EdoSeries · Director★ 9.1

- 2025Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a ConfessionalFilm · Director

- 2025SHOWTIME 7Film · Director, Screenplay

- 2023Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in CourtSeries · Director

- 2023Rohan at the LouvreFilm · Director★ 7.7

- 2022Snow CountryFilm · Director

- 2022雪国 -SNOW COUNTRY-Series · Director

- 2021Only YesterdayFilm · Director

- 2020Ima da kara, shinsaku drama tsukuttemimashitaSeries · Director

- 2019An Artist of the Floating WorldFilm · Director

- 2008The AuditorSeries · Director

- 2008Keiji no GenbaSeries · Director

- 2004Space PoliceFilm · Director

- 2000Aoi: Tokugawa Three GenerationsSeries · Director
