
Kenzo Horikoshi
Biography
After graduating from Waseda University Kenzo Horikoshi went into entrepreneurship founding Europe-Japan Society travel agency which was later sold to Japan Airlines. During his travels associated with this venture, Horikoshi became interested with the New German Cinema of Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder and upon his return to Japan in 1977, he organised the German New Film Festival to help introduce the movement. In 1982 as a pioneer of the boom, Horikoshi opened the Euro Space micro-cinema in Shibuya where he helped produce and distribute films for renowned independent filmmakers such as Isao Yamada, Gakuryû Ishii, as well as sponsored western directors like Charles Musser and Frank Henenlotter to come and present their work in Japan. After this Horikoshi, through Euro Space, would become a key figure in both the production of independent films at home in Japan working with directors such as Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Makoto Sato, Shinji Aoyama, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takashi Shimizu, and in helping directors from the West produce films in Japan such as with Matthias X. Oberg's Stratosphere Girl and Abbas Kiarostami's highly acclaimed Like Someone in Love. Throughout this period Euro Space also maintained it's position as a vital distributor of mainland European films into Japan, importing works from the likes of Lars von Trier, François Ozon, Aki Kaurismäki and Ulrich Seidl. But most notably was the regular collabration with Leos Carax, all of whoms films from The Lovers on the Bridge onward were distributed by Euro Space, which Horikoshi first took a more hands-on approach with by taking on a producer role for Carax's contribution to the Tokyo! omnibus film, and then again later with a producer role in the Cannes 2021 opening film, Annette.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1945-01-01
Place of Birth
Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
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Cast
Mr. X
20145.9 / 10
Crew
Smoke
19957.2 / 10
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
20006.5 / 10
Secret Journey
20043.5 / 10
The Sound of Waves
20120.0 / 10
Tokyo Eyes
19986.7 / 10
Kazuo Ohno
19950.0 / 10
Stratosphere Girl
20045.6 / 10
Sodom the Killer
20044.0 / 10
The Written Face
19950.0 / 10
Pola X
19995.4 / 10
Tsukineko Ni Mitsu No Tama
20040.0 / 10
Like a Desperado Under the Eaves
20030.0 / 10
Trouble Maker Lucy
20040.0 / 10
Love Kill Kill
20045.6 / 10
Barren Illusion
19995.9 / 10
Like Someone in Love
20126.9 / 10
Luna Papa
19996.2 / 10
Bridget
20025.4 / 10
I've Heard the Ammonite Murmur
19926.0 / 10
Annette
20216.7 / 10
Tokyo!
20086.9 / 10
Angel Dust
19946.8 / 10
Self and Others
20015.8 / 10
Fear and Trembling
20036.5 / 10