Mitsunori Fukuhara

(c)西村 淳

Mitsunori Fukuhara

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 1975, Mitsunori Fukuhara is a playwright and director. He launched the theater group Pichichi5 (quintet) (2002), the theater unit “Nippon no Kasen” (2006) where the performers operate the music and lighting themselves, and the company Bed & Makings that he co-leads with the actor Kouichiro Tomioka, which does performances outdoors and in unique places like warehouses, and while being active in these groups simultaneously he has continued to be involved in a wide range of activities. Fukuhara has won a reputation for his skill in creating worlds around characters that are simply normal people steeped in images of everyday life and develop their stories toward dramatic endings with universal scale and stages them with small numbers of actors playing multiple roles. He also does productions casting popular actors and writes many scripts for outside companies like the actress Shoko Takada’s theater unit Tsukikage Bangaichi. He was nominated as a finalist for the Kishida Drama Award for his plays Sono Yoake, Uso (2009) starring the actress Aoi Miyazaki and the play Tsunzagi Kouro, Sareru ga mama (2014) that he wrote for Tsukikage Bangaichi. And he also has won a reputation for putting new interpretations on existing works, like his successful 2016 adaptation for the stage of the popular manga Orebushi starring Shota Yasuda of the popular idol group Kan-Johnny∞ (eight). In the field of movies, Fukuhara has written numerous screenplays for films such as the television drama series Virtual Detective Tabibito Higarashi starring for Tori Matsuzaka. In 2015, he debuted as a film director with Ai wo Katareba Hentai desuka

Pichichi5
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