
Directing
Kenjo McCurtain
Place of birth
London, England
Known for
Directing
Credits
11 titles
Kenjo McCurtain is an award-winning filmmaker who moved to Japan to pursue his craft after graduating with a BA in Film Studies in the UK, where his work was screened at the university's annual film festival. Kenjo has written and directed four short films. Make-Believers (2021), a Japanese romantic musical is his feature film debut. Works: ‘Necropolis’ (2014): selected for the Fukuoka Independent Short Film Festival and ranked in Yahoo's top ten videos online thereafter; ‘Automation’ (2017) winner of Best Director and Best Actor at the English Riviera Film Festival, Official Selection at Bali International Film Festival and Hollywood Verge Awards; ‘Yamome’ (2018) winner of the Independ…
Known for
NRMasa hires rental actress and aspiring dancer, Kanako, to pose as his fiancée to impress his estranged, terminally-ill father. But as his father's death delays, Masa is forced to confront the spiraling web of lies and to learn to follow his heart.
Make-Believers
2024
7.5Based on 'The Statement of Randolph Carter' by H.P. Lovecraft, an apprentice recounts his ghostly experience with a parapsychologist on their hunt for the occult.
Transmission
2019
NRColorblind, cat-lover, Mariya hires loner-hacker, Tomo, to help catch a killer of stray cats, and in the process falls in love.
The Orange of Daydreams
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8.0Hiro, a shy, jaded salary worker, purchases a robot maid to keep him company. The robot at first injects some fun and comfort into his lonely existence but soon the lack of a human element only serves to isolate him further.
Automation
2018
8.0Through her stream-of-conscious testimony, 40-something widow, Tomoko Tanai, recounts her experience of dating a man 15 years her junior, Satoshi, a handsome prince-charming who may not be what he seems.
The Widow
2018
Behind the camera
NRMasa hires rental actress and aspiring dancer, Kanako, to pose as his fiancée to impress his estranged, terminally-ill father. But as his father's death delays, Masa is forced to confront the spiraling web of lies and to learn to follow his heart.
Make-Believers
2024
NRMasa hires rental actress and aspiring dancer, Kanako, to pose as his fiancée to impress his estranged, terminally-ill father. But as his father's death delays, Masa is forced to confront the spiraling web of lies and to learn to follow his heart.
Make-Believers
2024
7.5Based on 'The Statement of Randolph Carter' by H.P. Lovecraft, an apprentice recounts his ghostly experience with a parapsychologist on their hunt for the occult.
Transmission
2019
7.5Based on 'The Statement of Randolph Carter' by H.P. Lovecraft, an apprentice recounts his ghostly experience with a parapsychologist on their hunt for the occult.
Transmission
2019
NRColorblind, cat-lover, Mariya hires loner-hacker, Tomo, to help catch a killer of stray cats, and in the process falls in love.
The Orange of Daydreams
—
NRColorblind, cat-lover, Mariya hires loner-hacker, Tomo, to help catch a killer of stray cats, and in the process falls in love.
The Orange of Daydreams
—
NRColorblind, cat-lover, Mariya hires loner-hacker, Tomo, to help catch a killer of stray cats, and in the process falls in love.
The Orange of Daydreams
—
8.0Hiro, a shy, jaded salary worker, purchases a robot maid to keep him company. The robot at first injects some fun and comfort into his lonely existence but soon the lack of a human element only serves to isolate him further.
Automation
2018
8.0Hiro, a shy, jaded salary worker, purchases a robot maid to keep him company. The robot at first injects some fun and comfort into his lonely existence but soon the lack of a human element only serves to isolate him further.
Automation
2018
8.0Through her stream-of-conscious testimony, 40-something widow, Tomoko Tanai, recounts her experience of dating a man 15 years her junior, Satoshi, a handsome prince-charming who may not be what he seems.
The Widow
2018
8.0Through her stream-of-conscious testimony, 40-something widow, Tomoko Tanai, recounts her experience of dating a man 15 years her junior, Satoshi, a handsome prince-charming who may not be what he seems.
The Widow
2018
