Kowatanda Films is an award-winning indie production house based in Tokyo, founded in 2016 by director Anshul Chauhan and producer Mina Moteki. We create bold, emotionally charged human stories with international resonance.

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Our debut feature BAD POETRY TOKYO (2017) won the Grand Prix at Brussels International Film Festival before its nationwide release in Japan. This was followed by KONTORA (2019), which made history as the first Japanese film to win the Grand Prix at Tallinn Black Nights, also receiving Best Music, Best Actor at Osaka Asian Film Festival, and the Obayashi Prize at Japan Cuts.

In 2022, we premiered DECEMBER, a courtroom drama in Busan’s main program, later releasing in Japan. Korea, Taiwan and Spain.

Our latest feature, TIGER, an LGBT drama set in Tokyo, is set to have its world premiere in the Vision section at the 30th Busan International Film Festival this September.

Kowatanda continues to build on its reputation as a distinctive voice in Japanese independent cinema, committed to telling powerful, thought-provoking stories for a global audience.