Takenori Sento

Takenori Sento , Producing of cinema Japanese born in 1961. Major actor of the revival of the Japanese cinema of author at the end of the Nineties and to the beginning of the year 2000.

Biography

Takenori Sento created Suncent Cinema Works, in 1998, company of which it is it Managing director and which is completely financed by the Japan Satellite Broadcasting (the first paying national television).

Takenori Sento started its career as producer in 1992 in launching its series visionaries J-Movie Wars for Japanese satellite television.

In nine years, it produced 44 films carried out by emerging Japanese directors. Its conviction is that the quantity creates opportunities for quality. In 1997, it produced Suzaku Naomi Kawase, which accepted the Caméra of gold in Cannes. The same year, 2/DUO of Nobuhiro Suwa accepted NETPAC Award in Rotterdam, the price FIPRESCI with the Biennale de Venise, and the Prix of the Dragon and the Tiger to the Festival of Vancouver.

In 1998, Sento left a series two films The Ring and The Spiral which 20 million dollars paid roughly to the national scales and became one of principal explosive successes of the year. Thereafter, the films devînrent of large success on the Asian market.

In 1999, Sento launched J-Works under the aegis of Suncent Cinemaworks in order to produce 5 films of fiction having to be directed by scenario writers with the avant-garde of the Japanese cinema.

The film Chloe of Go Riju is the 3rd film carried out by J-Works. The films carried out are Eureka Shinji Aoyama - in competition in Cannes in 2000, it gained the price FIPRESCI and the rewards of an oecumenical jury - as Holaru of Naomi Kawase - which was in competition with the Festival of Locarno in 2000 when it gained the price FIPRESCI and CICAE. The film Chloe of Go Riju was in competition with the Festival of Berlin in 2000. Followed H Story of Nobuhiro Suwa, selected with a Certain Glance in Cannes in 2001 and the film Distance of Hirokazu Kore-Eda in competition for the Palme of gold in 2001.

The production of Sento concerning the epic adventures of the samurai Gojoe directed by Sogo Ishii was selected with the Festival of Toronto in 2000. The production of the film Boy' S Choir of Akira Ogata was selected in Berlin in 2000 when it gained the price Alfred Bauer for best work of fiction and the film Mabudachi-Bad Company of Tomoyuki Furumaya selected with the Festival of Rotterdam received the Prix of the Tiger and the price FIPRESCI.

In front of the lack of spectators of the film Gojoe (expensive production), Sento is constrained to leave the direction of the Sunset CinemaWorks to return on television and produce the series of the Mike Hammer of which the episode signed Shinji Aoyama, the Forest without name. Since his departure, each realizer whom it contributed to propose, is constrained to return to more modest works or to exile himself abroad to find capital, like Hideo Nakata left to Hollywood and Nobuhiro Suwa whose last feature-length film Nobody Knows was turned in the capital.

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