Getting A Head Start In Japanese Film Production with Kanako Fujita

Tokyo-based Japanese film producer Kanako Fujita is the founder of Felis Pictures Ltd. and a graduate of King’s College London, where she earned her degree in Film Studies. A participant of Rotterdam Lab 2025 and the Busan Producer Hub 2024, she specializes in Asian–European co-productions that bridge cultures and explore the moral and emotional complexities of modern society.Her first feature as a producer, Dead Fishes (2022, dir. Tomoaki Kaneko), was released theatrically across Japan, screened at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival, and won Best Cinematography at the Japan Film Festival Los Angeles. She is currently developing and producing several short and feature projects, including Push Button Syndrome (dir. Riko Murakami), which won the Asian Discovery Award at BIFAN It Project Market 2024, and The Funeral March (dir. Naoya Fujita), which received the One Cool Award at the Busan International Film Festival APM 2025.