Koto Nagata
Birth : 1971-06-27, Osaka, Japan
History
Born in 1971. Graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University majored in Business and Commerce. While in university, Koto Nagata participated and devoted her passion in study and cheerleading.
Taking advantage of experiences in dance lessons in New York, she worked on directing and planning stages and choreography for her team. And naturally, she started to have an interest in filmmaking for her career.
And she joined WILCO corporation soon after she graduated from school in 1995.
As she began her career, soon she started to develop her gift. She worked on many productions of films, TV dramas, P.V, and CF being an assistant director.
Many of them involved with leading directors and producers such as Shunji Iwai, Kenki Saegusa, and Christopher Doyle.
In the meantime, she worked as a director for the first time under a head director of Ten Shimoyama which was a TV- drama series (TV Tokyo) called “Jelly in the Merry-go-round”, a mega hit comics by Moyoco Anno.
Director
Student Yuko is a vain person who appears to be carefree and aggressive on the outside, but her personal life is reserved and simple. One day she meets Setsuko, who wears the same clothes as her. At first, Yuko and Setsuko treat each other as rivals, but after finding out that they are similar, a friendship develops.
Writer
My Cactus is a film from writer/director Koto Nagata that tells the story of unrequited love between its two main characters.
Director
My Cactus is a film from writer/director Koto Nagata that tells the story of unrequited love between its two main characters.
Screenplay
Yuri, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, moves to Taiwan after her father's remarriage and job transfer. Because of the language barrier, living with her new Taiwanese mother has been stressful,but they start to build a new relationship after something happens......
Director
Yuri, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, moves to Taiwan after her father's remarriage and job transfer. Because of the language barrier, living with her new Taiwanese mother has been stressful,but they start to build a new relationship after something happens......
Writer
Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets of people who weren't meant to be together. Several short films put together under the common theme of One Sided Love: ***My Nickname is Butatchi ***Something Blue ***Asahan no Yuge ***Kataomoi Supairaru ***Usotsuki no Koi ***Ibu no Okurimono ***Radio Personality ***Boku no Sabotin
Director
Childhood best friends. Cousins. Housemates. Coworkers. Eight stories of unrequited love, eight sets of people who weren't meant to be together. Several short films put together under the common theme of One Sided Love: ***My Nickname is Butatchi ***Something Blue ***Asahan no Yuge ***Kataomoi Supairaru ***Usotsuki no Koi ***Ibu no Okurimono ***Radio Personality ***Boku no Sabotin
Writer
21-year-old Misora Honzawa went to Tokyo from Aomori. Misora Honzawa happens to see Kumi on TV who is a yoga Instructor and model. By chance, the two women begin to live together. At first Misora Honzawa, who is easygoing, and Kumi, who is high maintenance, do not get along with each other. Because they share interests in yoga they eventually become closer and think about happiness and life.
Director
21-year-old Misora Honzawa went to Tokyo from Aomori. Misora Honzawa happens to see Kumi on TV who is a yoga Instructor and model. By chance, the two women begin to live together. At first Misora Honzawa, who is easygoing, and Kumi, who is high maintenance, do not get along with each other. Because they share interests in yoga they eventually become closer and think about happiness and life.
Director
Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...
Screenplay
Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...
Director
Two love stories set in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Director
Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.
Screenplay
Murakami Naoki is the most intelligent student at his high school, but he can't stop obsessing over a girl named Mizuno Haruka. He finally asks her out, and to his surprise, she accepts. After several months of a loving yet obviously doomed romance, it comes time for them to take the entrance exams for Tokyo University. What will happen to their relationship if only one of them is accepted?
Cinematography
Behind the scenes documentary about the filming of "Hana & Alice", which began as a series of shorts promoting Kit Kat
Director
The making of 'All About Lily Chou-Chou' starting from its conception as an interactive story that played out on a BBS
Assistant Director
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop star Lily Chou-Chou.
Writer
Yoriko, a lonely housewife, spies on her neighbors through a hole in the wall of her kitchen.
Editor
Yoriko, a lonely housewife, spies on her neighbors through a hole in the wall of her kitchen.
Director
Yoriko, a lonely housewife, spies on her neighbors through a hole in the wall of her kitchen.
