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Koji Kawano

Career

Active from 2001 to 2025, busiest in 2012 with 5 main titles.

Average score
GoodWatch score55/100
Highest rated
Poster for Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo
Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo
GoodWatch score75/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 3 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 3.7 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 4.8 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 3.1 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 5.3 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 4.6 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 5.7 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Koji Kawano Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Politics
    0.0, average 2.6
  • Historical
    0.0, average 2.5
  • Crime
    1.3, average 3.6
  • Class & Capitalism
    1.3, average 3.3

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Character-Driven 3
  • Japanese Cinema 2
  • Social Commentary 2
  • Japanese Romance 2
  • Coming-of-Age 2
  • High School Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

26
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

2020s

4 titles
Let's Eat Together Aki and Haru: More Please!
Let's Eat Together Aki and Haru: More Please! (2024)

Director

Let's Eat Together, Aki and Haru
Let's Eat Together, Aki and Haru (2023)

Director

Confession of a Woman: Alice
Confession of a Woman: Alice (2023)

Director

Tsunagare Radio ~ Bokura no Afuri Days
Tsunagare Radio ~ Bokura no Afuri Days (2021)

Director

2010s

11 titles
Commuting to School Series Commuter Tram
Commuting to School Series Commuter Tram (2015)

Director

Commuting to School Series On the Way to School
Commuting to School Series On the Way to School (2015)

Director

Missing
Missing (2012)

Director

Sinister Magamagashi 4: Ghostly Confinement
Sinister Magamagashi 4: Ghostly Confinement (2012)

Director

Sinister Magamagashi 1: Curse Woman
Sinister Magamagashi 1: Curse Woman (2012)

Director

Sinister Magamagashi 3: Linked Circles
Sinister Magamagashi 3: Linked Circles (2012)

Director

Sinister Magamagashi 2: Possessed Spirits
Sinister Magamagashi 2: Possessed Spirits (2012)

Director

When You Wish Upon A Star
When You Wish Upon A Star (2011)

Director, Screenplay

Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace (2011)

Director

072 Squadron: G Rangers
072 Squadron: G Rangers (2010)

Director

Gangsta
Gangsta (2010)

Director

2000s

11 titles ยท average score 48
An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women
An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women (2009)

Director

Always Smiling Above the Sea
Always Smiling Above the Sea (2009)

Screenplay

Cruel Restaurant
Cruel Restaurant (2008)
GoodWatch score 45

Director, Writer

1 Month Like Summer Vacation
1 Month Like Summer Vacation (2008)

Director

Attack Girls' Swim Team Versus the Undead
Attack Girls' Swim Team Versus the Undead (2007)
GoodWatch score 46

Director

Love My Life
Love My Life (2006)
GoodWatch score 54

Director

In The Site
In The Site (2004)

Director, Writer

Murder Net
Murder Net (2004)

Writer, Director

Political Lesbian: Female Precept
Political Lesbian: Female Precept (2003)

Assistant Director

Driving School Lady: Hitomi
Driving School Lady: Hitomi (2003)

Director, Writer

Making Of Blue Spring
Making Of Blue Spring (2001)

Director