Takuya Kato
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Takuya Kato
Born in Osaka in 1993, Kato is a playwright, director, and leader of Takumi Theater Company. He began writing for radio at the age of seventeen, and at eighteen he went to Italy to study film directing. After returning to Japan, he founded Takumi Theater Company. He has been involved in many plays outside his own theater company, writes for TV dramas and both writes and directs film. In 2023, Kato had his first overseas production in Taiwan with Watako’s Entanglement. In 2024, his newly written work One Small Step was staged at Charing Cross Theatre in London. In 2021, he won the 10th Shinichi Ichikawa Script Drama Award for Kirei no Kuni (NHK). In 2022, he won Best Director at the 30th Yomiuri Theater Awards for Mohaya Shizuka and The Welkin. In 2023, Dodo’s Free Fall won the 67th Kishida Kunio Drama Award, and his film Hotsureru won the 45th Nantes Three Continents Film Festival Distribution Support Award. In the same year, he was selected for Forbes Japan 30 Under 30.（Updated February 2025）
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