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Kunitoshi Manda is a Director, Writer and Art Direction Japonais born on 1956 at Tokyo (Japon)
Kunitoshi Manda (万田 邦敏, Manda Kunitoshi, born 1956 in Tokyo) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic.
Manda directed his first feature film, Unloved, in 2001. It won the Grand Rail d'Or prize and the Future Talent prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
The Tunnel, one of his television films, screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Manda's third feature film, The Kiss, premiered at the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2008. Japanese film critic Inuhiko Yomota praised the film as "a fantastic film."
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Kunitoshi Manda (万田 邦敏, Manda Kunitoshi, born 1956 in Tokyo) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic.
Biography
Kunitoshi Manda was a student at Rikkyo University, where he took Shigehiko Hasumi's filmology class.Manda directed his first feature film, Unloved, in 2001. It won the Grand Rail d'Or prize and the Future Talent prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
The Tunnel, one of his television films, screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Manda's third feature film, The Kiss, premiered at the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2008. Japanese film critic Inuhiko Yomota praised the film as "a fantastic film."
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Filmography of Kunitoshi Manda (3 films)
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The Kiss (2007)
, 1h48Directed by Kunitoshi Manda
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Etsushi Toyokawa, Eiko Koike, Toru Nakamura
Rating60%
Kyoko Endo (Eiko Koike), a young and lonely female office worker, falls in love with Akio Sakaguchi (Etsushi Toyokawa), a man in prison for killing a whole family, at first sight when she watches a television news program telling about him. But Hasegawa (Toru Nakamura), his lawyer, worries about their relationship.
Unloved (2001)
, 1h57Directed by Kunitoshi Manda
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Yoko Moriguchi, Toru Nakamura, Tarō Suwa
Rating66%
Mitsuko (Yoko Moriguchi), a young woman, becomes involved with Hiroshi (Shunsuke Matsuoka), a poor young man who lives her downstairs, and Eiji (Tōru Nakamura), a rich entrepreneur.
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The Kiss (2007)
, 1h48Directed by Kunitoshi Manda
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Etsushi Toyokawa, Eiko Koike, Toru Nakamura
Roles Writer
Rating60%
Kyoko Endo (Eiko Koike), a young and lonely female office worker, falls in love with Akio Sakaguchi (Etsushi Toyokawa), a man in prison for killing a whole family, at first sight when she watches a television news program telling about him. But Hasegawa (Toru Nakamura), his lawyer, worries about their relationship.
Unloved (2001)
, 1h57Directed by Kunitoshi Manda
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Yoko Moriguchi, Toru Nakamura, Tarō Suwa
Roles Writer
Rating66%
Mitsuko (Yoko Moriguchi), a young woman, becomes involved with Hiroshi (Shunsuke Matsuoka), a poor young man who lives her downstairs, and Eiji (Tōru Nakamura), a rich entrepreneur.
Art
Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983)
, 1hDirected by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Masayuki Suo
Roles Art Direction
Rating50%
A young girl, Akiko, in a tenement block in Tokyo's Kandagawa area, uses a telescope to spy on her neighbors in between lovemaking sessions with her boyfriend. When she finds what seems to be an incestuous relationship between a mother and son, she decides, with her boyfriend and her friend Masami, to rescue the son from this predicament and introduce him to a "healthy sex life".