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Masaki Iwana profile
Actor

Masaki Iwana

Directing

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Acting credits

4

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.4

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Movies: 6Series: 2Crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 1437446

IMDb ID: nm1919553

Known for: Directing

Died: November 11, 2020

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1973 - 2018

Years active: 46

Wikidata: Q11474250

Also known as

いわなまさき

Other jobs

Director (4)Producer (1)

Biography

Masaki Iwana (born c. February 1945 - Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Also a noted Butoh dancer. Iwana has presented his performances and workshops continuously – and has created works built on his sharpened aesthetic in more than 100 cities and 40 countries around the world. Iwana represents the institute for the research of Butoh – La Maison du Butoh Blanc, based in southern Normandy in France. In 2008 he produced and created the theatrical film Vermilion Souls, following this with A Summer Family in 2010, Princess Betrayal in 2012, and Charlotte-Susabi in 2017.