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Kankuro Kudo

Writing · Born July 19, 1970 · Miyagi, Japan

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

Movies with Kankuro Kudo

• Tekkonkinkreet (2006) — Sawada (voice)
• Look Back (2026) — Tamai
• Memories of Matsuko (2006) — Tetsuya Yamekawa
• Kids Return (1996) — High School Student
• A New Love in Tokyo (1994) — Hideo Nagai
• Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose (2010) — Ikuo Kashiwada (credit only)
• Crying Out Love in the Center of the World (2004) — Ryunosuke Oki
• The Brightest Sun (2026)
• Bakuman (2015) — Taro Kawaguchi
• Ichikei's Crow The Movie (2023)
• My Uncle (2016) — Sadao Haruyama
• Mom, Is That You?! (2023) — Tomiyuki Kibe

TV shows with Kankuro Kudo

• Kotaki Brothers and Shikuhakku (2020) — Murata
• Because We Forget Everything (2022)
• Villiany Ganbo (2014) — Iyataro Toyotomi
• Love & War of a Samurai (2003)