Kazutoshi Wadakura (和田倉 和利, Wadakura Kazutoshi, born 1959) is a Japanese film producer who is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of the Japanese production company Cine Bazar.
Life and career
Born in 1959 in Nitta, Genkai, Saga, Japan. After graduating from Meiji University, Wadakura became a film producer and founded the production company Cine Bazar in 1994, which he currently serves as president and CEO.
Wadakura has produced several live-action films in his career, including: Hiroshima, Swallowtail Butterfly, Cat's Eye, Love/Juice, Party 7, Calmi Cuori Appassionati, The Taste of Tea, Saiyūki, Hero (2007), The Magic Hour, Suspect X, Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess, Sideways, Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess, A Ghost of a Chance, The Kiyosu Conference, Hero (2015), Persona Non Grata, Shin Godzilla, Bleach, Masquerade Hotel, Hit Me Anyone One More Time, Shin Ultraman, and Shin Kamen Rider. Along with various other film producers, he served as executive producer for the 2019 film Diner, as well as for several other films including Key of Life, Persona Non Grata, and A Gambler's Odyssey 2020. Wadakura also made a cameo as an elderly fisherman in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, for which he served as the line producer for the Tokyo production crew.
Filmography
Producer
Executive producer/production
- Key of Life (2012)
- Pieta in the Toilet (2015)
- Persona Non Grata (2015)
- A Gambler's Odyssey 2020 (2019)
- Diner (2019)
- Revolver Lily (2023)
Co-producer
- Millennium Traveler (1999)
- Koi ni utaeba (2002)
Assistant producer
- Fuyajo (1998)
Line producer
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Actor
- Stereo Future SF episode 2002 (2001) as film producer
- The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) as elderly fisherman
Notes
References
External links
- Kazutoshi Wadakura at IMDb
- Kazutoshi Wadakura at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Kazutoshi Wadakura at the British Film Institute
- Kazutoshi Wadakura at Rotten Tomatoes
- Interview with Wadakura at Nikkatsu
