Kazutaka Watanabe

Director · 3 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

3 of Kazutaka Watanabe’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 2 on Max, 1 on Cineasterna and 1 on Netflix. Highest rated available: Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo (2026) ★ 7.6.

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).

Directing

• Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo (2026)
• Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Fateful Showdown in Kyoto (2026)
• Only Yesterday (2021)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• Rohan at the Louvre (2023)
• Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020)
• SHOWTIME 7 (2025)
• Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional (2025)
• Lost Land (2026)
• Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations (2000)
• Snow Country (2022)
• Deaf Voice: A Sign-Language Interpreter in Court (2023)
• Ima da kara, shinsaku drama tsukuttemimashita (2020)
• Keiji no Genba (2008)
• The Auditor (2008)
• An Artist of the Floating World (2019)