Writing
Kankuro Kudo
Also Known As: 宮藤官九郎, Kankurō Kudō, Kankurô Kudô
Birth Date
July 19, 1970
(56 years old)
Place of Birth
Miyagi, Japan
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Biography
Kankurō Kudō (宮藤 官九郎 Kudō Kankurō, born 19 July 1970) is a Japanese screenwriter, dramatist, director, actor and member of the theater company Otona Keikaku. He won the 'Best Screenplay' award at the 2002 Japanese Academy Awards for Go, which explores problems faced by people of Korean-heritage living in Japan. He acted in the hugely popular tear-jerker, Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World, and is also guitarist in the Japanese Comedy Rock Band Group Tamashii. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kankurō Kudō, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~
2016 • 1 episode
Because We Forget Everything
2022 • 10 episodes
Tekkonkinkreet
Sawada (voice)
2006
A New Love in Tokyo
Hideo Nagai
1994
Villiany Ganbo
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2014 • 11 episodes
Memories of Matsuko
Tetsuya Yamekawa
2006
Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku
Murata
2020 • 12 episodes
Look Back
Tamai
2026
Kids Return
High School Student
1996
Crying Out Love in the Center of the World
Ryunosuke Oki
2004
The Brightest Sun
2026
Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose
Ikuo Kashiwada (credit only)
2010
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2018 • 7 episodes
Mom, Is That You?!
Tomiyuki Kibe
2023
Bakuman
Taro Kawaguchi
2015
Love & War of a Samurai
2003 • 7 episodes
Piece of Cake
Manager of Asagaya Loft (cameo)
2015
California Dreamin'
Hajime Yamazaki
2002
Ichikei's Crow The Movie
2023
Welcome to the Quiet Room
Tetsuo Yakihata
2007