Kankuro Kudo

Kankuro Kudo

Рождение : 1970-07-19, Miyagi, Japan

История

Kankurō Kudō  (宮藤 官九郎 Kudō Kankurō, born 19 July 1970) is a Japanese screenwriter, dramatist, director, actor and member of the theater company Otona Keikaku. He won the 'Best Screenplay' award at the 2002 Japanese Academy Awards for Go, which explores problems faced by people of Korean-heritage living in Japan. He acted in the hugely popular tear-jerker, Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World, and is also guitarist in the Japanese Comedy Rock Band Group Tamashii. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kankurō Kudō, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Профиль

Kankuro Kudo

Фильмы

Mom, Is That You?!
Akio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he’s on the brink of divorce with his wife, and his relationship with his college-student daughter isn’t exactly smooth sailing. One day, he decides to drop in to Tokyo’s old-timey district to visit his mother Fukue. However, things seem a little off. His mother used to be always working with an apron on, but now she’s covered in stylish clothes, looking livelier than ever, and even in love! Akio becomes perplexed, feeling out of place in his own mother’s home, but after encountering kind, warm—and almost nosey—neighbors and a side of his mother he’d never seen before, Akio gradually starts to discover something he had lost sight of.
The Dry Spell
Fushimi
The story takes place during a summer of continuous sunshine when water supply restrictions are issued in the city. Shunsaku Iwakiri works for the city's water department and his job is to visit homes and stores that are behind on their bills and either collect the money or shut off the water supply (water suspension enforcement). Shunsaku is separated from his wife and children, and his heart grows thirsty as he spends his days visiting poor households and being abhorred. One day, during a water shutoff, Shunsaku meets two young sisters who have been neglected. He sees them as his own children and offers them a helping hand.
Ichikei's Crow The Movie
Ichigeki
Screenplay
The drama depicts the exploits of the “Ichigeki Hishikkitai”, a special combat unit formed by farmers to deal with the "Imperial Robbers" and the "Imperial Thieves" of the Satsuma Clan who were causing a stir in Edo at the end of the Edo period.
The Mole Song: FINAL
Writer
Reiji's final mission is to prevent the smuggling of 600 billion yen of drugs. For his mission, he gets on luxury passenger ship and he faces his strongest enemy to date.
Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
Loneliness 3
In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but Shūzō suddenly passes away. Momoko is dumbfounded by being alone again. She begins to go to the library and borrows books. This changes her life.
大人計画ウーマンリブvol.14「もうがまんできない」
Writer
大人計画ウーマンリブvol.14「もうがまんできない」
Director
大人計画ウーマンリブvol.14「もうがまんできない」
Punk Samurai Slash Down
Writer
Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by the Kurokaze Han, but they learn that Junoshin Kake lied. Junoshin Kake is given the death sentence and he must think of an escape plan.
Dear Etranger
Sawada
Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then becomes pregnant. Afterwards, things begin to change among the family members.
The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio
Writer
As undercover cop Reiji takes on a new mission to takedown the Chinese mafia, elite police officer Shinya moves to arrest Reiji.
My Uncle
Sadao Haruyama
Yukio Haruyama (Riku Ohnishi) is an elementary school student. He has an uncle (Ryuhei Matsuda) that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.
Too Young To Die!
Screenplay
After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
Too Young To Die!
Director
After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
Gamera
Manafu's father
GAMERA is a kaiju short film first released as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Gamera's debut film.
Bakuman
Taro Kawaguchi
Moritaka Mashiro doesn't want to follow in the path of his uncle who worked as a manga artist, but ultimately died because of exhaustion. Moritaka Mashiro figures he will graduate from school and work at an office. Things change though when falls in love with a girl at school. The girl, who hopes to become a voice actress, tells Moritaka they can marry, but only after they both achieve their dreams. Moritaka then teams up with fellow classmate Akito Takagi to publish their first manga.
Piece of Cake
Manager of Asagaya Loft (cameo)
Shino Umemiya readily dates guys interested in her, because she believes that's better than being alone. She breaks up with her violent boyfriend after he discovered that she cheated on him. She moves to a new area to get a fresh new start on her life. There, Shino Umemiya meets her neighbor Kyoshiro Sugahara. He is also her manager at her new job. Shino Umemiya becomes interested in him, but he lives with mysterious woman Akari.
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Screenplay
Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the firing is part of a carefully orchestrated plan. Reiji is ordered to become a "mole," an undercover cop. His target is Shuho Todoroki, the boss of the Sukiyakai gang. The group is the largest crime group in the Kanto area. Masaya Hiura, who works as a young boss of a Sukiyakai affiliated gang likes Reiji. While going through various hardships, Reiji works his way towards Shuho Todoroki.
The Apology King
Screenplay
Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis.
Maruyama, The Middle Schooler
Screenplay
Katsuya Maruyama (Hiraoka Takuma) is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi), a single father who moves into the same apartment complex. Tatsuo Shimoi is a bit of an enigma: he doesn't get along with the housewives in the apartment complex and doesn't appear to work. Through his encounter with the mysterious single father, Katsuya grows as a person.
Maruyama, The Middle Schooler
Director
Katsuya Maruyama (Hiraoka Takuma) is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi), a single father who moves into the same apartment complex. Tatsuo Shimoi is a bit of an enigma: he doesn't get along with the housewives in the apartment complex and doesn't appear to work. Through his encounter with the mysterious single father, Katsuya grows as a person.
Жена Гэгэгэ
Shigeru Mura
Фильм посвящен юности Сигэру Мидзуки, автора знаменитого комикса «Гэгэгэ-но Китаро» в жанре ёкай (комиксы о сверхъестественных существах), и его жены Нуноэ Мура. Фильм снят по автобиографии Нуноэ Мура, но ограничивается тем периодом, когда молодой художник, потерявший левую руку на войне, и его жена, познакомившаяся с ним за пять дней до свадьбы, сообща начинают прокладывать путь в жизни, пытаясь выбраться из нищеты и утвердиться в столице.
Ooedo ribingu deddo
Director
Kabuki play
Ooedo ribingu deddo
Writer
Kabuki play
Зебрамен 2: Атака на Зебра-Сити
Writer
Школьный учитель Итикава, известный как Человек-зебра, просыпается 15 лет спустя, в 2025 году. Городом Токио переименованым в «Зебра Сити», управляют злобный мэр и его не менее злобная дочь. Они ввели новый закон под названием «Зебра-тайм», позволяющий полиции уничтожать всех подряд в определённое время суток. И вот как раз под это действие и попадает Человек-зебра, который ко всему прочему потерял память и не может вспомнить свое прошлое...
The Tragedy of W
The lakeside at Lake Yamanaka is covered with snow. In the vacation house in such a quiet area owned by the chairman of Watsuji Seiyaku, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Japan, the tragedy suddenly breaks out. ”I have killed my granduncle!!” says Mako, who is loved by everybody in the Watsuji family. She has stabbed her granduncle, Yohei, to death. Soon after the domestic homicide, the entire family joining together in an attempt to make it look like a crime committed by somebody outside the family, begins to engage in imitative deception...
No More Cry
Writer
Abandoned by his father as a boy, Yuta grows up as the foster son of a restaurant owner and takes over the restaurant at the owner's death. Cheery, always smiling, always helpful, Yuta is known as Yama-chan, the friend everyone turns to. When Yuta discovers he had a hitherto unknown baby brother, he sets out to track him down. But the baby brother, Yusuke, has grown up to be half of a successful comedy team, the Kinjo Brothers, and Yusuke's professional "brother" has just written a best-selling book about their adventures growing up together. Yuta's appearance on the scene threatens to reveal that the book is a complete fiction and to set all three "brothers" into conflict with each other.
Одиночка
Screenplay
Он — самый виртуозный ниндзя-убийца в мире. Еще ребенком Камуи попал к великому учителю, который сделал из него профессионального убийцу могущественного клана ниндзя. Но став лучшим в своем деле, Камуи понял, что лишен всех радостей жизни и бежал. Многочисленные убийцы были отправлены по его следу. Ведь никто еще не покидал клана живым! Секреты тайного искусства охраняются веками, и предателя ждет только одно наказание — смерть.
Instant Swamp
Detective Sawaragi
A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her real father who happens to be an off-beat antique shopkeeper.
Пapни c лaтyнными кacтeтaми
Screenplay
Молодая девушка-менеджер крупного звукозаписывающего лейбла дорабатывает свой последний день в отделе по поиску талантов. Всякое случалось за время ее работы, но уже все позади. Через пару часов - вечеринка по случаю ухода, а дома ждет любимый мальчик в стиле "кавай" да еще и с гитарой. И, казалось, бы ничто уже не может изменить ее планы, если бы не последнее задание - найти для компании молодую и драйвовую панк-группу. Девушка находит в Интернете видеоролик комманды "Парни с Латунными кастетами" и ее начальник предлагает продлить с ней контракт, если та сумеет "доставить" группу в агентство. Канна отправляется за музыкантами, но оказывается, что группа давно распалась, видео, попавшее в сеть - запись с последнего концерта 25-летней давности, а сами музыканты уже не те, кем были раньше. Беда в том, что агентство уже во всю продает билеты на выступления группы! Честь компании превыше всего, а значит нужно сделать невозможное и… вновь собрать группу спустя четверть века!
Пapни c лaтyнными кacтeтaми
Director
Молодая девушка-менеджер крупного звукозаписывающего лейбла дорабатывает свой последний день в отделе по поиску талантов. Всякое случалось за время ее работы, но уже все позади. Через пару часов - вечеринка по случаю ухода, а дома ждет любимый мальчик в стиле "кавай" да еще и с гитарой. И, казалось, бы ничто уже не может изменить ее планы, если бы не последнее задание - найти для компании молодую и драйвовую панк-группу. Девушка находит в Интернете видеоролик комманды "Парни с Латунными кастетами" и ее начальник предлагает продлить с ней контракт, если та сумеет "доставить" группу в агентство. Канна отправляется за музыкантами, но оказывается, что группа давно распалась, видео, попавшее в сеть - запись с последнего концерта 25-летней давности, а сами музыканты уже не те, кем были раньше. Беда в том, что агентство уже во всю продает билеты на выступления группы! Честь компании превыше всего, а значит нужно сделать невозможное и… вновь собрать группу спустя четверть века!
Welcome to the Quiet Room
Tetsuo Yakihata
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki, who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.
Майко Хаааан!!!
Writer
Увидел однажды менеджер Онизука классическую японскую гейшу, и с того момента вся его жизнь переменилась. Став настоящим фанатом этого элемента японской культуры, Онизука задумал устроить гейшам масштабную рекламную кампанию, причём начать он решил с сотрудников фирмы, в которой работал.
The Sword of Alexander
Sasuke
Orichalcum is a mystical metal material that gives great powers to the life form that possesses it. Many Eons ago, the Orichalcum was split into three and landed on Earth. The metal then took the form of three relics: Skanda’s Vajra, Jew’s Cross, and the Sword of Alexander. Anyone able to re-unite these three Orichalcum relics would then obtain the powers of a God. Now two rival aliens are in a heated race to reunite the Orichalcum. They land in Edo era Tokyo where the relics are thought to exist.
Кисарадзуские «Кошачьи глазки»: Мировая серия
Screenplay
Приближается третья годовщина смерти Буссана, и Бемби начинает слышать таинственный голос, который твердит: «Построишь "его" — он придёт». Тогда Бемби решает собрать старых друзей, чтобы вернуть Буссана к жизни и сказать ему «бай-бай» как положено.
Железобетон
Sawada (voice)
Футуристический мир Города Богатств, в котором проживают двое мальчиков сирот, построен на величайшем контрасте; иногда жизнь здесь проявляет свои дары, порой она может обойтись крайне жестоко. Их называют «Black & White». На восходе и закате они охраняют свой город. Днем и ночью герои вынуждены скитаться по улицам, в поисках способа заработать денег. Но краски сгущаются, когда они оказываются связанными миссией: сразится и отвоевать у злоумышленников, мечтающих завладеть властью в метрополисе, то, что считается душой Города и спасти самих себя.
Воспоминания о Мацуко
Tetsuya Yamekawa
Странная жизнь женщины по имени Мацуко постепенно разворачивается перед глазами ее юного племянника. Волшебная сказка и страшная быль. Комедия и трагедия. Удивительная история жизни женщины, готовой на все ради любви. Есть ли смысл в жизни без любви? Бессмысленна ли жизнь, проведенная в поисках счастья? И чем вообще измерить ценность человеческой жизни?
Сердце, наполненное любовью
Mitsuo Usui
30-летний Хироси Судзутани работает в крупной сети супермаркетов, где координирует различные торговые акции общенационального масштаба. 5 января 2006 года он вылетает в очередную командировку в город Модзи на юго-востоке Японии. Когда-то давно, 20 лет назад, он прожил там почти год у своей бабушки, и теперь вспоминает о том, что тогда происходило. Каково же было его удивление, когда он обнаруживает, что, попав в этот город, он переместился не только в пространстве, но и во времени: на календаре в кафе — 5 января 1986 года, та же дата на газете, которую он берет почитать. А началось с того, что он встретил себя самого — такого, каким он был 20 лет назад...
Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
Screenplay
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
Director
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.
69
Screenplay
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.
Оплакивая любовь в самом центре мира
Ryunosuke Oki
Сакутаро в свои тридцать с лишним лет ведёт обычную среднюю жизнь и собирается жениться на своей девушке Рицуко. Однако, когда Рицуко находит странную кассету с записью женского голоса, она неожиданно исчезает, оставив только короткую записку со словами о том, что ей нужно ненадолго уехать. Случайно, Сакутаро видит её в телерепортаже о приближении тайфуна. Похоже, она поехала в его родной город, но для чего? С этой мыслью Сакутаро отправляется на поиски невесты, одновременно погружаясь в воспоминания о событиях 17-и летней давности.
Drugstore Girl
Writer
Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's remote suburbs. There, she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping district's middle-aged men all fall for the young girl's charms, and they start practicing lacrosse once they have found out that that's her favourite sport.
Зебрамен
Writer
Огромной ошибкой стала идея учителя и простого семьянина Синъити одеться супергероем Зебраменом, пытаясь спастись от скучной жизни. Телесериал о подвигах этого супергероя был прекращен после шестой серии, но Синъити продолжал действовать в мире своих фантазий в самодельном костюме зебры. Он получил больше, чем мог желать, но, похоже, что именно его одетое в черно-белый костюм альтер-эго стоит между абсолютным злом и счастливым концом.
Кисарадзуские «Кошачьи глазки»: Японская серия
Screenplay
На дворе лето 2003-го года, а Буссан и не думает умирать! Мало того, у него масса планов на будущее: пить пиво с друзьями, играть в бейсбол... и не только! Ещё посетить новое заведение босса Ямагути, вновь встретиться с Айкавой Сё и даже устроить в Кисарадзу масштабный рок-фестиваль! Это лето будет головокружительным!
Thirteen Steps
Toru Kihara
A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
Rock'n'Roll Mishin
Kenji has a dull life. He is unmotivated at the office, and unable to break off a lukewarm relationship with his girlfriend. Then, he meets an old classmate from high school, Ryoichi. Ryoichi says he's starting up a clothing brand with a group of friends. One day, Kenji visits their atelier, or workplace, and is fascinated by the sense of freedom that they share. As his relationship with them deepens, Kenji finds it harder and harder to accept the old world he comes from. One day, he punches his boss and quits his job. Now a proper member of Ryoichi's team, it's the start of a new and carefree life for him. However, it is short-lived. The clothes they make do not sell as well as they hoped for. Short on cash, energy, and ideas, the negative feedback loop forces each of them to start struggling in a search for alternative paths.
Ping Pong
Screenplay
As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.
The Labor Cop
Due to the effect of the prolonged great depression, finally even the police have to introduce a part-time job system for its employees. Although his main job is a steeplejack, one man is also employed as a day-laborer detective. He spends his days waiting for an incident to occur so he will be called in to investigate. On the other hand, Yasu is not only a graduate of The University of Tokyo with a successful IT business, he is also member of the Nagasaka yakuza clan. Moreover, he is a favorite of the clan leader.
GO
Screenplay
Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.
Thumb Princess
Screenplay
Saeko Machida is a high school girl with a crush on a boy in her class named Yuichi Kimijima. Becoming obsessed with him, she tries to gain his attention and win his affections, but there's no such luck. One day, she meets a strange man at a flea-market who gives her a red liquid, telling her that if she splashes it on Yuichi, her wish will become true. She acquiring the liquid, certain that the liquid will cause Yuuichi to love her. Saeko finally gets the courage to confess her love to Yuichi, but he rejects her. Disappointed, she splashes the liquid on Yuichi, but that liquid actually causes him to shrink about three inches in height.
Bayside Shakedown: Autumn Campaign for Crime Eradication
Ikuo Kashiwada
Ребята возвращаются
High School Student
Синдзи и Масару не принадлежали к числу самых прилежных учеников. Они были из тех ребят, которых даже спустя долгие годы после окончания школы многие из нас вспоминают со страхом. Любимым делом неразлучной парочки было издеваться над учителями, изводить одноклассников и отбирать у них деньги. Преподаватели махнули рукой на нелегкое дело перевоспитания юных оболтусов, но ни что не длится вечно. Теперь Синдзи стал боксером, а Масару — якудза.
My Missing Valentine
Writer
Set in Kyoto, Japan, a love story takes place between Hajime (Masaki Okada) and Reika (Kaya Kiyohara). Hajime is a handsome young man, who is usually a second quicker than everyone else and straightforward. He works at the post office. Reika is a young woman, who is usually a step slower than everyone else. After Valentine's Day, Hajime wakes up and is unable to remember what happened that day.