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Mitsunobu Kawamura（ 、August 12, 1949 - June 1, 2022) was a Japanese film producer and entepreneur.

Biography
In 1970, Kawamura dropped out of Keio University Faculty of Economics.

In 1989, at the age 40, Kawamura dounded "Kawamura office"

In 1994, Kawamura established　“Aoyama publishing firm”. He achieved success with publishing translated book of famous best-sellers like "Trainspotting"

In 1998, Kawamura established new company - "Artist House". The company got listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange once and had been author of many hit books.

Around this time, he started investment in movies.

He introduced young talented filmmakers like　　Darren Aronofsky, Lynne Ramsay, etc...

His representative importing films to Japan were shown below.

"The Blair Witch Project (1999)"

"The Notebook (2004)"

"The Phantom of the Opera (2004)"

"La Marche de l'empereur (2005)"

He also committed "The Tesseract" as Executive Producer under the English name which was "Michael Kawamura".

But Kawamura was removed from the board despite he was the founder after internal confliction.

In 2008, Kawamura came back to cinema industry, he founded film-distributing agency "STAR SANDS, INC"

The company is making success with importing some foreign movies and producing many provocative movie works.

Examples of masterpieces that "STAR SANDS, INC" was involved are shown below.

"Breathless (2008, Imported from Korea)"

"SIGLO (2009, Imported from Korea)"

"YOYOCHU SEX and the world of Tadashi Yoyogi (2011)"

"Wu Yi The Smallest Baby Panda In The World (2012)"

"Kazoku no kuni (2012)"

"EL BULLI IN PROGRESS (2011, Imported from Germany)"

"Bill Cunningham New York (2013, Import)"

"Le passé (2013, Imported from France)"

"5 Fights Up (2016, Imported from USA)"

"Wilderness (2016)"

"Sweet Irene (2018)"

"The Journalist (2019, Award-winning work for Japan Academy Award for Best Picture)"

Died June 11, 2022 of heart failure.

Filmography
"Platonic Sex (2001, Planning cooperation)"

"Woman of Water (2002, Film-making)"

"Kazoku No Kuni(2012, Executive producer)"

"MYSTERY(2016, Executive producer)"

"Wilderness Part1 / Part2 (2017, Executive producer)"

"Sweet Irene (2018, Executive producer)"

"Junishi (2019, Executive producer)"

"The journalist (2019, Executive producer)"

"Miyamoto (2019, Executive producer)"

"Mother (2020, Producer)"

"Any Crybabies Around? (2020, Executive producer)"

"The family (2021, Executive producer)"

"A Madder Red (2021, General producer)"

"The family (2021, Executive producer)"

"パンケーキを毒見する (2021, Executive producer)"

"Intolerance (2021, Executive producer)"

"人と仕事 (2021, Executive producer)"

"Village (2023, Executive producer)"

Footnote
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