Kenji Yamauchi
Kenji Yamauchi
Born in Tokyo in 1958, Kenji Yamauchi is a TV commercial director, stage director and playwright. In 1983 he joined the Dentsu Film Co. (present Dentsu Creative X). In 1992, he became a freelance director and went on to win a large number of awards, including the Grand Prize of the Television Commercial division of the 33rd Galaxy Awards, the Best Commercial award of the 37th ACC Japan Commercial Festival, and others. In 2004, he created the stage production Budo to Mikkai (Grapes and clandestine meetings) starring the late actress Kanako Fukaura and billed as “Theater by the TV commercial director Kenji Yamauchi.” In 2006, he launched the theater unit Shiroyagi-no-kai in collaboration with the producer Wakano Jojima. Since then he has created many TV commercials, TV dramas, short films, Web dramas, etc. In 2011, Yamauchi’s first full-length movie, Mitsuko Kankaku (English title: Being Mitsuko) was released nationwide and was later nominated for the International Competition of the 27th Warsaw International Film Festival. Other theater works by Yamauchi include Atarashii Hashi – le pont neuf (2008), Atarashii Otoko (2009), Megane Fusai no Istanbul Ryokoki (2011), Ano Yama no Ryosen ga Kuzureteyuku (2012), Mi no Hikishimaru Omoi (2013) and others.
