
Director
Kazutaka Watanabe
Kazutaka Watanabe worked in a range of film industry and film festival positions before establishing his company, E.x.N K.K., in 2014 to plan and produce films from A to Z. He had produced 3 features, 2 are co-production, and 1 short film. Since 2017, he works as a coordinator at Rough Cut program in Yamagata International Documentary FF. He once in a while holds screening workshops for the locals in Japan to experience what it is like to observe films/footages, he met while working. E.x.N K.K. is a Film Production that plans, produces, and makes subtitles for films and audiovisual media. It creates films from international and local perspectives in Asia using a style unbound by country or nationality. He is known for directing the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020) as well as Rohan at the Louvre (2023).
Directed

Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo
Director · 2026

Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
Director · 2000

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
Director · 2020

Rohan at the Louvre
Director · 2023

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional
Director · 2025

Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court
Director · 2023

Snow Country
Director · 2022

SHOWTIME 7
Director · 2025

Ima da kara, shinsaku drama tsukuttemimashita
Director · 2020

Only Yesterday
Director · 2021

Keiji no Genba
Director · 2008

The Auditor
Director · 2008

Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in Kyoto
Director · 2026

An Artist of the Floating World
Director · 2019

雪国 -SNOW COUNTRY-
Director · 2022

The Forest of Sunekosuri
Director · 2026