Kazutoshi Wadakura
Kazutoshi Wadakura 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.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, 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, Persona Non Grata, Shin Godzilla, Bleach, Masquerade Hotel, Hit Me Anyone One More Time, Shin Ultraman, and 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.
Filmography
Producer
The Stairway to the Distant Past- Hiroshima
- Swallowtail Butterfly The Breath
- Cat's Eye Mabui Love/Juice Party 7 Calmi Cuori Appassionati Current Lover The Taste of Tea Nin x Nin: Ninja Hattori-kun, the Movie Shining Boy & Little Randy Check It Out, Yo! Back to the Bubble Era! Time Machine Drum Style Argentine Baba Saiyūki Hero My Darling of the Mountains
- The Magic Hour Suspect X I Want to Be a Shellfish Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess
- Sideways Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess A Ghost of a Chance LOVE: Masao-kun ga Iku! Orpheus' Lyre Maruyama, the Middle Schooler Ataru: the First Love & the Last Kill The Apology King The Kiyosu Conference
- Hero Galaxy Kaido
- Persona Non Grata Shin Godzilla The Anthem of the Heart
- Bleach Masquerade Hotel Hit Me Anyone One More Time Way to Find the Best Life Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie Masquerade Night Radiation House: The Movie Shin Ultraman Yudo
- Shin Kamen Rider
Executive producer/production
Key of Life Pieta in the Toilet Persona Non Grata A Gambler's Odyssey 2020- Diner
- ''Revolver Lily''
Co-producer
Millennium Traveler- ''Koi ni utaeba''
Assistant producer
- ''Fuyajo''