Kazuyoshi Kumakiri

熊切和嘉 KUMAKIRI Kazuyoshi

Kazuyoshi Kumakiri is a Japanese director from Obihiro, Hokkaido.

Popular actors Rinko Kikuchi and Ryo Kase both got their first starring roles in Kumakiri’s 2001 film Hole in the Sky.

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Born: September 1, 1974 (age 38)
Birthplace: Obihiro, Hokkaido

Filmography as director


My Man	2014
Natsu no Owari	2013
Sketches of Kaitan City	2010

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Trailer for Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's "Natsu no Owari" starring Hikari Mitsushima

The official website for Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s Natsu no Owari (lit. End of Summer) has been updated with a YouTube embed of the movie’s new trailer. Based on a prize-winning autobiographical novel by Buddhist nun Jakucho Setouchi, the film stars Hikari Mitsushima as a divorcee named Tomoko who has been in…
2 weeks ago
Tadanobu Asano and Fumi Nikaido to star in Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s “My Man”

On Tuesday it was announced that Tadanobu Asano and Fumi Nikaido will star in Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s upcoming film My Man. It was also revealed that veteran actor Tatsuya Fuji will also play a key role. The movie, which was first announced back in February, is based on Kazuki Sakuraba’s Naoki…
2 months ago
Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s “My Man” coming in 2014

On Monday, director Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s long-planned film adaptation of Kazuki Sakuraba’s Naoki Prize-winning novel Watashi no Otoko (My Man) was announced officially in Japan. The movie’s initial proposal won the Asian Project Market’s Busan Award in 2011. There were reportedly many people in the film industry eager to adapt the…
3 months ago
Hikari Mitsushima to star in Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s “Natsu no Owari”

From Cinema Today comes the news that Hikari Mitsushima will be starring in a movie titled Natsu no Owari (literally “End of Summer”) by director Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Non-Ko, Sketches of Kaitan City). The movie is an adaptation of an autobiographical 1963 novel by author and Buddhist nun, Jakucho Setouchi. The…
11 months ago
Trailer released for Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's "Blazing Famiglia"

The Japanese film website Cinema Today has uploaded the new trailer for Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s Blazing Famiglia to their YouTube channel. The film is a live-action adaptation of Hiroshi Tanaka’s manga series “Bakugyaku Kazoku” (1999-2004). The series followed up Tanaka’s BADBOYS manga (1988-1996), which centered around biker gangs in Hiroshima and…
1 year ago

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