Kazutoshi Wadakura

Kazutoshi Wadakura
Kazutoshi Wadakura
Native name	和田倉和利
Born	1959; Nitta, Genkai, Saga, Japan
Alma mater	Meiji University
Occupation	Film producer
Years active	1994-present
Title	Founder, president and CEO of; Cine Bazar

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.^[1]

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 the upcoming film, 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.^[2]

Filmography

Producer

The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995)^[3]
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Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)^[5]^{[lower-alpha 2]}
The Breath (1996)^[6]
Cat's Eye (1997)^[7]^(p400)^{[lower-alpha 3]}
Mabui (1999)^[8]^{[lower-alpha 4]}
Love/Juice (2000)^[9]^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Party 7 (2000)^[10]^{[lower-alpha 6]}
Calmi Cuori Appassionati (2001)^[11]^{[lower-alpha 7]}
Current Lover (2002)^[12]^{[lower-alpha 8]}
The Taste of Tea (2004)^[13]^{[lower-alpha 9]}
Nin x Nin: Ninja Hattori-kun, the Movie (2004)^[7]^(p433)^{[lower-alpha 10]}
Shining Boy & Little Randy (2005)^[14]^{[lower-alpha 11]}
Check It Out, Yo! (2006)^[15]^{[lower-alpha 12]}
Back to the Bubble Era! Time Machine Drum Style (2007)^[7]^(p446)
Argentine Baba (2007)^[16]
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Hero (2007)^[7]^(p448)^{[lower-alpha 14]}
My Darling of the Mountains (2008)^[17]^{[lower-alpha 15]}
The Magic Hour (2008)^[18]^{[lower-alpha 16]}
Suspect X (2008)^[19]^{[lower-alpha 17]}
I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)^[20]^{[lower-alpha 18]}
Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess (2009)^[21]^{[lower-alpha 19]}
Sideways (2009)^[22]^{[lower-alpha 20]}
Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I (2009)^[23]^{[lower-alpha 21]}
Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II (2010)^[24]^{[lower-alpha 22]}
Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess (2011)^[25]^{[lower-alpha 23]}
A Ghost of a Chance (2011)^[26]^{[lower-alpha 24]}
LOVE: Masao-kun ga Iku! (2012)^[27]^{[lower-alpha 25]}
Orpheus' Lyre (2013)^[28]^{[lower-alpha 26]}
Maruyama, the Middle Schooler (2013) [with Makiko Nagasaka and Makoto Okada]^[29]
Ataru: the First Love & the Last Kill (2013)^[30]^{[lower-alpha 27]}
The Apology King (2013)^[31]^{[lower-alpha 28]}
The Kiyosu Conference (2013)^[32]^{[lower-alpha 29]}
Hero (2015)^[33]^{[lower-alpha 30]}
Galaxy Kaido (2015)^[34]^{[lower-alpha 31]}
Persona Non Grata (2015)^[35]^{[lower-alpha 32]}
Shin Godzilla (2016)^[36]^{[lower-alpha 33]}
The Anthem of the Heart (2017)^[37]^{[lower-alpha 34]}
Bleach (2018)^[38]
Masquerade Hotel (2019)^[39]^{[lower-alpha 35]}
Hit Me Anyone One More Time (2019)^[40]^{[lower-alpha 36]}
Way to Find the Best Life (2019)^[41]
Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie (2021)^[42]^{[lower-alpha 37]}
Masquerade Night (2021)^[43]^{[lower-alpha 38]}
Radiation House: The Movie (2022)^[44]^{[lower-alpha 39]}
Shin Ultraman (2022)^[45]^{[lower-alpha 40]}
Shin Kamen Rider (2023)^[46]^{[lower-alpha 41]}

Executive producer/production

Key of Life (2012)^[47]^{[lower-alpha 42]}
Pieta in the Toilet (2015)^[48]^{[lower-alpha 43]}
Persona Non Grata (2015)^[35]^{[lower-alpha 44]}
A Gambler's Odyssey 2020 (2019)^[49]^{[lower-alpha 45]}
Diner (2019)^[50]^{[lower-alpha 46]}

Co-producer

Millennium Traveler (1999)^[51]^{[lower-alpha 47]}
Koi ni utaeba (2002)^[52]

Assistant producer

Fuyajo (1998)^[53]^{[lower-alpha 48]}

Line producer

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)^[2]

Actor

Stereo Future SF episode 2002 (2001) as film producer^[54]
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) as elderly fisherman^[2]

Notes

↑ With Tracey Alexander, Katsumi Ono, and Tomoshiro Kaiyama.
↑ With Shinya Kawai, Osamu Kubota, and Hiroko Maeda.
↑ With Akitoshi Takuma, Hiroshi Shirai, and Shunsuke Koga.
↑ With Kazufumi Asami.
↑ With Chikako Nakabayashi and Tsuyoshi Sugino.
↑ With Hiroyuki Iizumi, Kazuto Takida, and Toshiyuki Koga.
↑ With Yuji Usui.
↑ With Tsuyoshi Takashiro.
↑ With Kazuto Takida.
↑ With Ryoichi Fukuyama, Toru Miyazawa, Madoka Takiyama, and Ko Wada.
↑ With Hiroyoshi Koiwai.
↑ With Toru Miyazawa and Madoka Takiyama.
↑ With Toro Okamoto and Kazuto Takida.
↑ With Takashi Ishihara, Yoshimasa Genozono, Tadashi Makino, and Toru Miyazawa.
↑ With Hiroyuki Taniguchi and Kaoru Matsuzaki.
↑ With Yumiko Shigeoka and Kuga Maeda.
↑ With Tadashi Makino.
↑ With Nobuhiro Azuma.
↑ With Yuji Usui.
↑ With Toru Miyazawa.
↑ With Kuga Maeda.
↑ With Kuga Maeda
↑ With Yuji Usui.
↑ With Kuga Maeda and Ken Tsuchiya.
↑ With Kimitaka Goka, Fumitsugu Ikeda, and Satoshi Fukushima.
↑ With Yasushi Yamazaki and Kenichi Nakayama.
↑ With Hiroki Ueda, Han Chol, Nobuhiro Azuma, and Masato Ohara.
↑ With Nobuyuki Iinuma and Satoshi Fukushima.
↑ With Kuga Maeda.
↑ With Tsuneya Watanabe.
↑ With Kuga Maeda and Megumi Nishihara.
↑ With Nobuyuki Iinuma.
↑ With Yoshihiro Sato and Masaya Shibusawa.
↑ With Shun Hidaka, Hiroyuki Shimizu, and Shunsuke Saito.
↑ With Juichi Uehara.
↑ With Kuga Maeda.
↑ With Nobuyuki Iinuma, Yoko Edami, and Tadahisa Sakamoto.
↑ With Hiroki Wakamatsu and Shun Hidaka.
↑ With Kazutaka Obara, Daisuke Kusagaya, and Hiromasa Tamai.
↑ With Hideaki Anno, Masaki Kawashima, Takehiko Aoki, and Tomoya Nishino.
↑ With Daiki Koide.
↑ With Akira Fujimoto.
↑ With Toshihiro Takahashi, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Yoshiki Junji, Tetsu Okada, Akira Ogawa, and Hideaki Shimizu.
↑ With Yoshio Nakayama, Yousuke Miyake, Youzo Matsuda, Masakazu Kubo, Yoshiro Ido, Tomoko Shiro, Shinichiro Tsuzuki, Minami Ichikawa, Yoshikazu Kumagai, Koya Yabushita, Yutaka Ishikawa, and Masaki Otsuka.
↑ With Shinya Sano, Takaaki Ichihara, Tetsuhiko Maruhashi, Hidenobu Muramatsu, Tetsuya Sei, Goto Akinobu, and Yoshito Chubu.
↑ With Hitoshi Chiba, Yoshitaka Hori, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Hajime Inoue, Hiroyuki Ishigaki, Tsukasa Imamura, Tetsuya Sei, Kazuo Tani, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Eisaku Yoshikawa, and Yuusuke Tanaka.
↑ With Akemi Suyama.
↑ With Tsutomu Sakurai and Chung Jinbang.

References

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External links

Kazutoshi Wadakura at the Internet Movie Database
Kazutoshi Wadakura at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Kazutoshi Wadakura at the British Film InstituteLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Kazutoshi Wadakura at Rotten Tomatoes
Interview with Wadakura at Nikkatsu

[5] With Tracey Alexander, Katsumi Ono, and Tomoshiro Kaiyama.

[7] With Shinya Kawai, Osamu Kubota, and Hiroko Maeda.

[10] With Akitoshi Takuma, Hiroshi Shirai, and Shunsuke Koga.

[12] With Kazufumi Asami.

[14] With Chikako Nakabayashi and Tsuyoshi Sugino.

[16] With Hiroyuki Iizumi, Kazuto Takida, and Toshiyuki Koga.

[18] With Yuji Usui.

[20] With Tsuyoshi Takashiro.

[22] With Kazuto Takida.

[23] With Ryoichi Fukuyama, Toru Miyazawa, Madoka Takiyama, and Ko Wada.

[25] With Hiroyoshi Koiwai.

[27] With Toru Miyazawa and Madoka Takiyama.

[29] With Toro Okamoto and Kazuto Takida.

[30] With Takashi Ishihara, Yoshimasa Genozono, Tadashi Makino, and Toru Miyazawa.

[32] With Hiroyuki Taniguchi and Kaoru Matsuzaki.

[34] With Yumiko Shigeoka and Kuga Maeda.

[36] With Tadashi Makino.

[38] With Nobuhiro Azuma.

[40] With Yuji Usui.

[42] With Toru Miyazawa.

[44] With Kuga Maeda.

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[48] With Yuji Usui.

[50] With Kuga Maeda and Ken Tsuchiya.

[52] With Kimitaka Goka, Fumitsugu Ikeda, and Satoshi Fukushima.

[54] With Yasushi Yamazaki and Kenichi Nakayama.

[57] With Hiroki Ueda, Han Chol, Nobuhiro Azuma, and Masato Ohara.

[59] With Nobuyuki Iinuma and Satoshi Fukushima.

[61] With Kuga Maeda.

[63] With Tsuneya Watanabe.

[65] With Kuga Maeda and Megumi Nishihara.

[67] With Nobuyuki Iinuma.

[69] With Yoshihiro Sato and Masaya Shibusawa.

[71] With Shun Hidaka, Hiroyuki Shimizu, and Shunsuke Saito.

[74] With Juichi Uehara.

[76] With Kuga Maeda.

[79] With Nobuyuki Iinuma, Yoko Edami, and Tadahisa Sakamoto.

[81] With Hiroki Wakamatsu and Shun Hidaka.

[83] With Kazutaka Obara, Daisuke Kusagaya, and Hiromasa Tamai.

[85] With Hideaki Anno, Masaki Kawashima, Takehiko Aoki, and Tomoya Nishino.

[87] With Daiki Koide.

[89] With Akira Fujimoto.

[91] With Toshihiro Takahashi, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Yoshiki Junji, Tetsu Okada, Akira Ogawa, and Hideaki Shimizu.

[92] With Yoshio Nakayama, Yousuke Miyake, Youzo Matsuda, Masakazu Kubo, Yoshiro Ido, Tomoko Shiro, Shinichiro Tsuzuki, Minami Ichikawa, Yoshikazu Kumagai, Koya Yabushita, Yutaka Ishikawa, and Masaki Otsuka.

[94] With Shinya Sano, Takaaki Ichihara, Tetsuhiko Maruhashi, Hidenobu Muramatsu, Tetsuya Sei, Goto Akinobu, and Yoshito Chubu.

[96] With Hitoshi Chiba, Yoshitaka Hori, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Hajime Inoue, Hiroyuki Ishigaki, Tsukasa Imamura, Tetsuya Sei, Kazuo Tani, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Eisaku Yoshikawa, and Yuusuke Tanaka.

[98] With Akemi Suyama.

[101] With Tsutomu Sakurai and Chung Jinbang.

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