Shôzô Ichiyama

Born in 1963 in Shinnanyo City, Yamaguchi Prefecture (now Shunan City). After graduating from Yamaguchi Prefectural Tokuyama High School, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo. In 1987, he joined Shochiku. In 1998, he left Shochiku to join T-Mark. In 2000, he launched Tokyo FILMeX. In 2008, he produced Song of Sichuan, directed by Jia Zhangke. He has been the programming director of the Tokyo International Film Festival since April 2021. From 2024, he will be a professor in the Film Production Department at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts.

In 2019, he received the 37th Kawakita Award.