Katsuya Tomita

Katsuya Tomita

After graduating from high school, he saved money to make films by working as a construction worker and a truck driver, using his childhood friends as actors. For three years, using an 8mm camera, he spent his weekends making his first film, Above the Clouds, which was released independently in 2003. With the 1,500,000 yen he won from an award for this film, together with Toranosuke Aizawa he wrote Off Highway 20 (2007), which was shot using 16mm film. In 2008, he decided to make Saudade with the help of his childhood friends once again, basing the story in his hometown of Kofu, a city to which many Japanese-Brazilians have moved back from Brazil. Saudade was funded with help from the citizens of Kofu; it took a year and half to film, and was finished in 2011. Tomita submitted this film to international film festivals; it was invited to the Locarno International Film Festival and won the Golden Montgolfière Award at the Festival des 3 Continents in France. The film was invited to many other festivals, including four that organised retrospectives of Tomita’s work, notably the Jeonju International Film Festival. In Japan, the film was viewed by 30,000 people, making it a box office hit. In 2012, Tomita started going back and forth between Bangkok and Tokyo in preparation for his next film, Bangkok Nites.

  • Title: Katsuya Tomita
  • Popularity: 0.339
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1972-04-18
  • Place of Birth: Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
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Katsuya Tomita Movies

  • 2016
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    Bangkok Nites

    Bangkok Nites

    6.5 2016 HD

    Bangkok, 2015. Ozawa, a Japanese man who had nowhere to go, meets Luck, a woman has reached the height of her glory on Thaniya Street, a place that...

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  • 2013
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    Chiang Rai Girl

    Chiang Rai Girl

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2013
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    Chiang Rai Girl

    Chiang Rai Girl

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2011
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    Saudade

    Saudade

    6.7 2011 HD

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  • 2011
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    Saudade

    Saudade

    6.7 2011 HD

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  • 2011
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    Saudade

    Saudade

    6.7 2011 HD

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  • 1970
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    Kuzoku meets Formosa

    Kuzoku meets Formosa

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2016
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    Bangkok Nites

    Bangkok Nites

    6.5 2016 HD

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  • 2016
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    Bangkok Nites

    Bangkok Nites

    6.5 2016 HD

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  • 2003
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    Above the Clouds

    Above the Clouds

    5 2003 HD

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  • 2007
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    Off Highway 20

    Off Highway 20

    5 2007 HD

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  • 2007
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    Off Highway 20

    Off Highway 20

    5 2007 HD

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  • 2019
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    Tenzo

    Tenzo

    7 2019 HD

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  • 2019
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    Tenzo

    Tenzo

    7 2019 HD

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  • 2013
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    同じ星の下、それぞれの夜

    同じ星の下、それぞれの夜

    1 2013 HD

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