Ryoichi Kimizuka
Ryoichi Kimizuka is a Japanese screenwriter and director for television and film.
Career
Kimizuka first entered the Japanese television industry by working on variety shows under Kin'ichi Hagimoto. He then began writing screenplays for television dramas, including such hits as Zutto anata ga suki datta and Bayside Shakedown. He has branched out into screenplays for film, including the hit Bayside Shakedown films, as well as directing.Awards
Kimizuka won the award for best screenplay for Bayside Shakedown: The Movie at the 1998 Yokohama Film Festival, and for Nobody to Watch Over Me at the 2008 Montreal World Film Festival.Selected works
Television screenplays
- Zutto anata ga suki datta
- Toki o Kakeru Shōjo
- ''Bayside Shakedown''
Film screenplays
- Parasite Eve
- Bayside Shakedown: The Movie
- Tales of the Unusual
- Bayside Shakedown 2
- Infection
- ''Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust''
Films directed
- Makoto
- ''Nobody to Watch Over Me''