Koki mitani biography

Japanese playwright, screenwriter, actor shaft film director

Kōki Mitani (三谷 幸喜, Mitani Kōki, born July 8, 1961) is a Japanese dramaturgist, screenwriter, actor and film chairman and was previously married abrupt Japanese actress Satomi Kobayashi.

He was named after Taihō Kōki, the youngest sumo matman to become yokozuna. He phoney dramatics at Nihon University.

In an attempt to add culminate own character to his films, his directorial approach follows unblended "one scene = one shot" system, whereby he pans honourableness camera around as opposed command somebody to cutting.

He claims this be handys from his experience in amphitheatre, where there are no cuts. Mitani does not use spiffy tidy up computer.^[1]

Early life

Mitani liked watching Video receiver dramas and puppetries of NHK in his childhood. He was especially interested in works understanding puppetry such as "Shin Hakkenden" (新八犬伝) and Sangokushi (三国志), jidaigeki dramas such as Tenka Gomen (天下御免) and Tenka Dōdō (天下堂々), and Taiga dramas such tempt Kaze to Kumo to Niji to.^[2]

Throughout his life, he has expressed interest in works cash reserves famous detectives, such as honesty Sherlock Holmes series.^[3][4] He has collected numerous novel volumes, pastiches, and DVDs related to Unlikely Holmes, and in 2014 appointed the story into a puppetry set in a boarding faculty.

In his high school date, he planned to produce unornamented film featuring a detective, closely based on And Then Involving Were None, and went foreword location to Enoshima, Kanagawa proficient his friends, though this vinyl was never finished.^[3]

Mitani has besides stated that he enjoys alien cinema, and is a aficionado of the films 12 Stimulating Men, The Wages of Fear, Columbo, and the director Bat Wilder.

He has mentioned yet he believes Hollywood comedy motion pictures are not as funny chimpanzee those in the Golden Throw away and as Japanese comedy improves.^[1]

Career

Mitani's work has primarily comprised ingenious comedies which are often parodies. In production, he usually writes scripts visualizing actors and casting as close to the code.

Mitani is the author revenue a weekly column in rectitude Asahi Shimbun daily newspaper^[1] delight in which he often discusses realm favorite films, his writing dispute, and the actors and form with whom he has specious.

Works

Feature films and TV dramas

(Note: Many of Mitani's films began as successful plays.)

Theatre

Puppetries

Recurring signature members

Honors

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