Kei CHIKAURA

Kei CHIKAURA, born in Japan in 1977, grew up in Germany and Japan and studied economics and film at Osaka University. He started his career as a filmmaker in 2013 with the short film EMPTY HOUSE. His third short film SIGNATURE (2017) was screened at Locarno Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival, among others. It won the Grand Prix at Encounters Film Festival in Bristol. COMPLICITY (2018) is his feature length debut.

Films shown at Nippon Connection

Complicity, Japan, PRC 2018 (Director) NC19
Complicity, Japan, PRC 2018 (Script) NC19

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