Kae Inaba

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Kae Inaba

The director Kae Inaba graduated from the Film Program Director’s Course at Nihon University College of Art. She began making films while still in school. After joining Bungakuza in 2008, she became a full member in 2013, and in April made her directing debut at Bungakuza Atelier no Kai with Crossfire. Major directing credits include The Wild Duck and The Atami Murder Case (Bungakuza Atelier no Kai), The Misunderstanding and My Month (New National Theatre, Tokyo), Women in Blue Stockings (Piccolo Theater), The Unburied Dead, The Mother, and The Physicists (Office Cottone). Recent directing includes The Unburied Dead (PARCO), Breaking the Code (Gorch Brothers), It’s not a bad thing that people around the world fall into a crevasse, Strange Snow, and Shuji Terayama Version of Lysistrata – Eros in Wonderland (Mixzone). In 2023, Inaba won Best Director at the Yomiuri Theater Awards for The Physicists and The Ghost is Here. (Updated July 2024)