Fukuma Kenji

Name: Fukuma Kenji
Native name: 福間健二
Also Known as: ふくまけんじ
Nationality: Japanese
Gender: Male
Born: March 10, 1949
Died: April 26, 2023

Kenji FUKUMA is a poet, film maker, film critic and scholar of English literature and cultural studies. Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He started to write as early as the late 1960s. He has studied and wrote about the works of modern poets such as Dylan Thomas and W. H. Auden. As a film critic he has chiefly discussed Japanese cinema in the 1960s. Since the late 1980s he has distinguished himself as a poet with his own special style appealing to readers. In 2011 Kenji FUKUMA was awarded two great prizes (Hagiwara Sakutaro and Rekitei ) for his new book, The Blue House, which contained 99 poems written over two decades, and released his third feature film, Summer for the Living.

Kenji Fukuma passed away from pneumonia three days after completing his final film "Not Born Yesterday" on April 26, 2023. Edit Biography

Year	Title	Type	Rating
2023	Not Born Yesterday	Movie	0.0
2020	Paradise Lost	Movie	0.0
2016	Fall's Reason	Movie	8.0
2008	My Dear Daughter of Okayama	Movie	0.0
1995	Kyuni Tadori Tsuite Shimau	Movie	0.0

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2023	Not Born Yesterday Japanese Movie, 2023, Terada (Support Role)	Terada Support Role	0.0
1969	Dark Story of a Sex Crime: Phantom Killer Japanese Movie, 1969, (Unknown)	Unknown	0.0
1969	Jogakusei Gerira Japanese Movie, 1969, Minami Goro (Unknown)	Minami Goro Unknown	0.0
1968	A Womb to Let Japanese Movie, 1968, (Unknown)	Unknown	0.0
1967	Sex Crimes Japanese Movie, 1967, (Unknown)	Unknown	5.0

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