Shôzô Ichiyama

Shozo Ichiyama born 1963 also known as Shozo Ichikawa is a Japanese film producer He has worked on films by directors such as Hou Hsiaohsien and Jia Zhangke Born in 1963 in Shinnanyo City Yamaguchi Prefecture now Shunan City After graduating from Yamaguchi Prefectural Tokuyama High School he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo In 1987 he joined Shochiku In 1998 he left Shochiku to join TMark In 2000 he launched Tokyo FILMeX In 2008 he produced Song of Sichuan directed by Jia Zhangke He has been the programming director of the Tokyo International Film Festival since April 2021 From 2024 he will be a professor in the Film Production Department at the Graduate School of Film and New Media Tokyo University of the Arts In 2019 he received the 37th Kawakita Award Description above from the Wikipedia article Shozo Ichiyama licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia