Kazutaka Watanabe

Biography

Kazutaka Watanabe worked in a range of film industry and film festival positions before establishing his company, E.x.N K.K., in 2014 to plan and produce films from A to Z. He had produced 3 features, 2 are co-production, and 1 short film. Since 2017, he works as a coordinator at Rough Cut program in Yamagata International Documentary FF. He once in a while holds screening workshops for the locals in Japan to experience what it is like to observe films/footages, he met while working. E.x.N K.K. is a Film Production that plans, produces, and makes subtitles for films and audiovisual media. It creates films from international and local perspectives in Asia using a style unbound by country or nationality. He is known for directing the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020) as well as Rohan at the Louvre (2023).

Directed

1. Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo (2026) — Director
2. Rohan at the Louvre (2023) — Director
3. Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020) — Director
4. SHOWTIME 7 (2025) — Director
5. Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional (2025) — Director
6. Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations (2000) — Director
7. Only Yesterday (2021) — Director
8. Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in Kyoto (2026) — Director
9. Snow Country (2022) — Director
10. Ima da kara, shinsaku drama tsukuttemimashita (2020) — Director
11. Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court (2023) — Director
12. Song of the Samurai (2026) — Director
13. An Artist of the Floating World (2019) — Director
14. The Forest of Sunekosuri (2026) — Director
15. Space Police (2004) — Director
16. The Auditor (2008) — Director
17. Keiji no Genba (2008) — Director
18. 雪国 -SNOW COUNTRY- (2022) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Rohan at the Louvre (2023) — Kyoka's Father