is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Most known for his films Harmonium (2016), Love Life (2022) and Love on Trial (2025).
Career
Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the Film School of Tokyo that he began taking evening classes in filmmaking. One of his teachers was Kiyoshi Kurosawa. He made his first feature-length film, The Chair, in 2002. He joined the Seinendan theater troupe, headed by Oriza Hirata, in 2005, and has often used their work and their actors in his films.
Influences
Fukada has said that he was strongly influenced by the films of Eric Rohmer, particularly The Green Ray, and was inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing Children of Paradise and The Spirit of the Beehive.
Filmography
Feature films YearEnglish titleOriginal titleNotes2002The Chair椅子2008Human Comedy in Tokyo東京人間喜劇2010Hospitalité歓待2013Au revoir l'étéほとりの朔子2015Sayonara さようなら2016Harmonium 淵に立つ2018The Man from the Sea海を駆ける2019A Girl Missingよこがお2020The Real Thing本気のしるしcompilation film of 2019 TV series2022Love Life2025Love on Trial恋愛裁判2026Nagi Notesナギダイアリー
Awards
His film Hospitalité won the Best Picture Award in the Japanese Eyes competition of the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2010. Au revoir l'été won the grand prize and the prize of the young jury at the Three Continents Festival in 2013. And his 2016 film Harmonium won the Prix du Jury in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.
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