
Person
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

Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo
Director

Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
Director

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
Director

Song of the Samurai
Director

Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in Kyoto
Director

Lost Land
Producer

Space Police
Director

Keiji no Genba
Director

Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court
Director

SHOWTIME 7
Director
Filmography
- 2026Song of the SamuraiDirector
- 2026Lost LandProducer
- 2026The Forest of SunekosuriDirector
- 2026Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in KyotoDirector
- 2026Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in EdoDirector
- 2025Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a ConfessionalDirector
- 2025SHOWTIME 7Director
- 2023Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in CourtDirector
- 2023Rohan at the LouvreKyoka's Father
- 2022Snow CountryDirector
- 2022雪国 -SNOW COUNTRY-Director
- 2021Only YesterdayDirector
- 2020Thus Spoke Kishibe RohanDirector
- 2020Ima da kara, shinsaku drama tsukuttemimashitaDirector
- 2019An Artist of the Floating WorldDirector
- 2008The AuditorDirector
- 2008Keiji no GenbaDirector
- 2004Space PoliceDirector
- 2000Aoi: Tokugawa Three GenerationsDirector
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