Fujiwara Kei (director)

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Fujiwara Kei ( Japanese不二 稿 京; born March 12, 1957 in Kumamoto Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese director , camerawoman and actress . She works primarily as a theater maker, but has also produced experimental horror films that are characterized by a surreal, grotesque and violent imagery. One of the goals of her work as a filmmaker is to directly confront viewers with pain and brutality. Her cinematic work is in the tradition of "body horror" and is influenced by Shin'ya Tsukamoto and David Cronenberg .

biography

Fujiwara grew up in a poor family in Kumamoto Prefecture. When she was in her early twenties, she moved to Tokyo, where she joined the theater company of her future mentor, the writer Jūrō Kara . In the 1980s she worked closely with director Shin'ya Tsukamoto ; she played the role of the nameless friend in his cyberpunk film Tetsuo: The Iron Man . The experience she gained as Tsukamoto's “right hand man” motivated her to produce two low-budget films: Organ (1996) and Ido (2005). Her debut Organ is considered a cult film.

Filmography

As a director

  • 1996: Organ
  • 2005: Ido

As an actress

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Amber Noé: Capturing a World in a Crystal Ball: A Conversation with Kei Fujiwara. In: Notebook. November 27, 2019, accessed June 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Kei Fujiwara Double Feature. In: FFFEST - Celebrating Women in Film. Retrieved June 26, 2020 (American English).
  3. ^ A b Salvador Jimenez Murguía (ed.): The Encyclopedia of Japanese Horror Films . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham / Boulder / New York / London 2016, ISBN 978-1-4422-6166-2 , pp. 239 (English).
  4. ^ Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) - IMDb. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Fujiwara is the family name, Kei the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Fujiwara, Kei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 不二 稿 京 (Japanese name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese director and actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Kumamoto Prefecture