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Shôzô Ichiyama

Producer, Actor
Shozo Ichiyama (born 1963), also known as Shozo Ichikawa, is a Japanese film producer. He has worked on films by directors such as Hou Hsiao-hsien and Jia Zhangke.

Born in 1963 in Shinnanyo City, Yamaguchi Prefecture (now Shunan City). After graduating from Yamaguchi Prefectural Tokuyama High School, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo. In 1987, he joined Shochiku. In 1998, he left Shochiku to join T-Mark. In 2000, he launched Tokyo FILMeX. In 2008, he produced Song of Sichuan, directed by Jia Zhangke. He has been the programming director of the Tokyo International Film Festival since April 2021. From 2024, he will be a professor in the Film Production Department at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts.

In 2019, he received the 37th Kawakita Award.

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Known For

  • Violent Cop
  • A Touch of Sin
  • Ash Is Purest White
  • Mountains May Depart
  • Platform
  • Flowers of Shanghai
  • Blackboards
  • Unknown Pleasures
  • Caught by the Tides
  • 24 City
  • Goodbye South, Goodbye
  • The World
  • Good Men, Good Women
  • Mr. Long
  • They Say Nothing Stays the Same
  • Last Shadow at First Light
  • Spring Tide
  • Hapinesu
  • Cold Bloom
  • Chasuke's Journey
  • Delbaran
  • Nowhere Man
  • Tracing Her Shadow
  • Transcending Dimensions

Filmography

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