Portrait of Kankuro Kudo

Kankuro Kudo

Writing

Biography

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

Born: July 19, 1970

Place of Birth: Miyagi, Japan

Filmography

2023
Mom, Is That You?!

as Tomiyuki Kibe

2023
The Dry Spell

as Fushimi

2021
2017
Dear Etranger

as Sawada

2016
My Uncle

as Sadao Haruyama

2015
Gamera

as Manafu's father

2015
Bakuman

as Taro Kawaguchi

2015
Piece of Cake

as Manager of Asagaya Loft (cameo)

2014
Villiany Ganbo

as Iyataro Toyotomi

2010
The Wife of Gegege

as Shigeru Mura

2010
Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose

as Ikuo Kashiwada (credit only)

2009
Instant Swamp

as Detective Sawaragi

2007
Welcome to the Quiet Room

as Tetsuo Yakihata

2006
Tekkonkinkreet

as Sawada (voice)

2006
Memories of Matsuko

as Tetsuya Yamekawa

2005
A Heartful of Love

as Mitsuo Usui

2003
Thirteen Steps

as Toru Kihara

1996
Kids Return

as High School Student

1994
A New Love in Tokyo

as Hideo Nagai