Kazutaka Watanabe

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).

Filmography of Kazutaka Watanabe

  • The Forest of Sunekosuri (2026)
  • Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo (2026)
  • Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in Kyoto (2026)
  • SHOWTIME 7 (2025)
  • Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional (2025)
  • Rohan at the Louvre (2023)
  • Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court (2023)
  • Snow Country (2022)
  • 雪国 -SNOW COUNTRY- (2022)
  • Only Yesterday (2021)
  • Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020)
  • Ima da kara, shinsaku drama tsukuttemimashita (2020)
  • An Artist of the Floating World (2019)
  • The Auditor (2008)
  • Keiji no Genba (2008)
  • Space Police (2004)
  • Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations (2000)