Kazutoshi Wadakura

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.

Kazutoshi Wadakura
和田倉 和利
Born	1959^[1] Nitta, Genkai, Saga, Japan^[1]
Alma mater	Meiji University
Occupation	Film producer
Years active	1994-present
Title	Founder, president and CEO of 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]
• Hiroshima (1995)^[4][a]
• Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)^[5][b]
• The Breath (1996)^[6]
• Cat's Eye (1997)^{[7]: 400 [c]}
• Mabui (1999)^[8][d]
• Love/Juice (2000)^[9][e]
• Party 7 (2000)^[10][f]
• Calmi Cuori Appassionati (2001)^[11][g]
• Current Lover (2002)^[12][h]
• The Taste of Tea (2004)^[13][i]
• Nin x Nin: Ninja Hattori-kun, the Movie (2004)^{[7]: 433 [j]}
• Shining Boy & Little Randy (2005)^[14][k]
• Check It Out, Yo! (2006)^[15][l]
• Back to the Bubble Era! Time Machine Drum Style (2007)^[7]: 446
• Argentine Baba (2007)^[16]
• Saiyūki (2007) [with Yoshihiro Suzuki and Yasushi Ogawa]^{[7]: 448 [m]}
• Hero (2007)^{[7]: 448 [n]}
• My Darling of the Mountains (2008)^[17][o]
• The Magic Hour (2008)^[18][p]
• Suspect X (2008)^[19][q]
• I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)^[20][r]
• Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess (2009)^[21][s]
• Sideways (2009)^[22][t]
• Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I (2009)^[23][u]
• Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II (2010)^[24][v]
• Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess (2011)^[25][w]
• A Ghost of a Chance (2011)^[26][x]
• LOVE: Masao-kun ga Iku! (2012)^[27][y]
• Orpheus' Lyre (2013)^[28][z]
• Maruyama, the Middle Schooler (2013) [with Makiko Nagasaka and Makoto Okada]^[29]
• Ataru: the First Love & the Last Kill (2013)^[30][aa]
• The Apology King (2013)^[31][ab]
• The Kiyosu Conference (2013)^[32][ac]
• Hero (2015)^[33][ad]
• Galaxy Kaido (2015)^[34][ae]
• Persona Non Grata (2015)^[35][af]
• Shin Godzilla (2016)^[36][ag]
• The Anthem of the Heart (2017)^[37][ah]
• Bleach (2018)^[38]
• Masquerade Hotel (2019)^[39][ai]
• Hit Me Anyone One More Time (2019)^[40][aj]
• Way to Find the Best Life (2019)^[41]
• Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie (2021)^[42][ak]
• Masquerade Night (2021)^[43][al]
• Radiation House: The Movie (2022)^[44][am]
• Shin Ultraman (2022)^[45][an]
• Yudo (2023)^[46][ao]
• Shin Kamen Rider (2023)^[47][ap]

Executive producer/production

• Key of Life (2012)^[48][aq]
• Pieta in the Toilet (2015)^[49][ar]
• Persona Non Grata (2015)^[35][as]
• A Gambler's Odyssey 2020 (2019)^[50][at]
• Diner (2019)^[51][au]
• Revolver Lily (2023)^[52]

Co-producer

• Millennium Traveler (1999)^[53][av]
• Koi ni utaeba (2002)^[54]

Assistant producer

• Fuyajo (1998)^[55][aw]

Line producer

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

Actor

• Stereo Future SF episode 2002 (2001) as film producer^[56]
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) as elderly fisherman^[2]

Notes

1. With Tracey Alexander, Katsumi Ono, and Tomoshiro Kaiyama.
2. With Shinya Kawai, Osamu Kubota, and Hiroko Maeda.
3. With Akitoshi Takuma, Hiroshi Shirai, and Shunsuke Koga.
4. With Kazufumi Asami.
5. With Chikako Nakabayashi and Tsuyoshi Sugino.
6. With Hiroyuki Iizumi, Kazuto Takida, and Toshiyuki Koga.
7. With Yuji Usui.
8. With Tsuyoshi Takashiro.
9. With Kazuto Takida.
10. With Ryoichi Fukuyama, Toru Miyazawa, Madoka Takiyama, and Ko Wada.
11. With Hiroyoshi Koiwai.
12. With Toru Miyazawa and Madoka Takiyama.
13. With Toro Okamoto and Kazuto Takida.
14. With Takashi Ishihara, Yoshimasa Genozono, Tadashi Makino, and Toru Miyazawa.
15. With Hiroyuki Taniguchi and Kaoru Matsuzaki.
16. With Yumiko Shigeoka and Kuga Maeda.
17. With Tadashi Makino.
18. With Nobuhiro Azuma.
19. With Yuji Usui.
20. With Toru Miyazawa.
21. With Kuga Maeda.
22. With Kuga Maeda
23. With Yuji Usui.
24. With Kuga Maeda and Ken Tsuchiya.
25. With Kimitaka Goka, Fumitsugu Ikeda, and Satoshi Fukushima.
26. With Yasushi Yamazaki and Kenichi Nakayama.
27. With Hiroki Ueda, Han Chol, Nobuhiro Azuma, and Masato Ohara.
28. With Nobuyuki Iinuma and Satoshi Fukushima.
29. With Kuga Maeda.
30. With Tsuneya Watanabe.
31. With Kuga Maeda and Megumi Nishihara.
32. With Nobuyuki Iinuma.
33. With Yoshihiro Sato and Masaya Shibusawa.
34. With Shun Hidaka, Hiroyuki Shimizu, and Shunsuke Saito.
35. With Juichi Uehara.
36. With Kuga Maeda.
37. With Nobuyuki Iinuma, Yoko Edami, and Tadahisa Sakamoto.
38. With Hiroki Wakamatsu and Shun Hidaka.
39. With Kazutaka Obara, Daisuke Kusagaya, and Hiromasa Tamai.
40. With Hideaki Anno, Masaki Kawashima, Takehiko Aoki, and Tomoya Nishino.
41. With Hiroki Wakamatsu, Zushi Kensuke, Toshikatsu Yamaguchi, and Tatsuya Kato.
42. With Daiki Koide.
43. With Akira Fujimoto.
44. With Toshihiro Takahashi, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Yoshiki Junji, Tetsu Okada, Akira Ogawa, and Hideaki Shimizu.
45. 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.
46. With Shinya Sano, Takaaki Ichihara, Tetsuhiko Maruhashi, Hidenobu Muramatsu, Tetsuya Sei, Goto Akinobu, and Yoshito Chubu.
47. With Hitoshi Chiba, Yoshitaka Hori, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Hajime Inoue, Hiroyuki Ishigaki, Tsukasa Imamura, Tetsuya Sei, Kazuo Tani, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Eisaku Yoshikawa, and Yuusuke Tanaka.
48. With Akemi Suyama.
49. With Tsutomu Sakurai and Chung Jinbang.

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External links

• Kazutoshi Wadakura at IMDb
• Kazutoshi Wadakura at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}
• Kazutoshi Wadakura at Rotten Tomatoes
• Interview with Wadakura at Nikkatsu