Perusing the scripts to give shape to the image of a director is crucial to costume design. Besides historical accuracy, the created costumes are based on the background, personality, occupation of each role, and various other elements.
“The characters come to real life and start living vigorously within the world view of the work.”
What drives us to design and produce costumes is our desire to create such costumes for any work.
- Rhapsody in August (Director Akira Kurosawa)
- Madadayo (Director Akira Kurosawa)
- After the Rain (Director Takashi Koizumi)
- Letter from the Mountain (Director Takashi Koizumi)
- The Sea Watches (Director Kei Kumai)
- The Twilight Samurai (Director Yoji Yamada)
- Zatoichi (Director (Takeshi Kitano)
- The Hidden Blade (Director Yoji Yamada)
- The Professor and His Beloved Equation (Director Takashi Koizumi)
- Hana (Director Hirokazu Koreeda)
- Love and Honor (Director Yoji Yamada)
- DORORO (Director Akihiko Shiota)
- Kaidan (Director Hideo Nakata)
- Silk (Director Fran?ois Girard)
- Best Wishes for Tomorrow (Director Takashi Koizumi)
- Still Walking (Director Hirokazu Koreeda)
- I Want To Be A Shellfish (Director Katsuo Fukuzawa)
- Dance Subaru (Director Chi-Ngai Lee)
- Dear Doctor (Director Miwa Nishikawa)
- Villon’s Wife (Director Kichitaro Negishi)
- Ballad (Director Takashi Yamazaki)
- Leonie (Director Hisako Matsui)
- Outrage (Director Takeshi Kitano)
- The Last Ronin (Director Shigemichi Sugita)
- Raiou (Director Ryuichi Hiroki)
- Harakiri Death of a Samurai (Director Takashi Miike)
- Beyond Outrage (Director Takeshi Kitano)
- The Kiyosu Conference (Director Kouki Mitani)
- Like father, Like son (Director Hirokazu Koreeda)
- A Samurai Chronicle (Director Takashi Koizumi)
- 軍師官兵衛 Gunji Kanbee (NHK)
- Persona Non Grata (Director Cellin Gluck)
- Terminal (Director Tetsuo Shinohara)
- Ryuzo 7 (Director Takeshi Kitano)
- Sanada Ten Braves (Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi)
- Daddy Sister (NHK)
- After the Storm (Director Hirokazu Koreeda)
- Mumon The Land of Stealth (Director Yoshihiro Nakamura)
- Lear on the Shore (Director Masahiro Kobayashi)
- The Third Murder (Director Hirokazu Koreeda)
- OUTRAGE CODA (Director Takeshi Kitano)
- Segodon (NHK)
- Shoplifters (Director Hirokazu Koreeda)
- Masquerade Hotel (Director Masayuki Suzuki)
- An Artist of the Floating World
- The Longest Day in Chang'an
- Kiringa Kuru (NHK)
- Seiten wo tsuke (NHK)
- Ryuko Kanbo (NHK)
- Masquerade Night (Director Masayuki Suzuki)
- Last Days Of The Samurai (Director Takashi Koizumi)
- Monster (Director Hirokazu Koreeda)
- Kubi (Director Takeshi Kitano)
- Revolver Lily (Directed by Isao Yukisada; as costume designer)
- Tokyo Vice season 2 (Directed by Alan Poul, et al.)
- Ibonoito(CM)
- Suntory Oolong tea(CM)
- Suntory Sparkling water(CM)
- Kazuko Kurosawa
- Hideyuki Kurosawa
- So Kurosawa
The Kiyosu Conference
Persona Non Grata
DORORO
Sanada Ten Braves
BALLAD
The Longest Day in Chang'an
Shoplifters
After the Rain
Suntory
Monster
Kubi
Last Days Of The Samurai
Kiringa Kuru1
Kiringa Kuru2
The design image of Kurosawa is for illustration purposes only.
Based on the design image, the designers work with the director to develop their imaginations. After historical accuracy checks, costumes for the real stage come to life. Unlike drawings for industrial design, costume design drawings are used to elicit the imaginations of the director, staff, and cast.
Costume design drawings are sort of a benchmark for creating costumes.
The Kiyosu Conference
Persona Non Grata
DORORO
Sanada Ten Braves
BALLAD
The Longest Day in Chang'an
Shoplifters
After the Rain
Suntory
Monster
Kubi
Last Days Of The Samurai
Kiringa Kuru1
Kiringa Kuru2
Revolver Lily
The design image of Kurosawa is for illustration purposes only.
Based on the design image, the designers work with the director to develop their imaginations. After historical accuracy checks, costumes for the real stage come to life. Unlike drawings for industrial design, costume design drawings are used to elicit the imaginations of the director, staff, and cast.
Costume design drawings are sort of a benchmark for creating costumes.
Revolver Lily
The design image of Kurosawa is for illustration purposes only.
Based on the design image, the designers work with the director to develop their imaginations. After historical accuracy checks, costumes for the real stage come to life. Unlike drawings for industrial design, costume design drawings are used to elicit the imaginations of the director, staff, and cast.
Costume design drawings are sort of a benchmark for creating costumes.
- Kazuko Kurosawa
- Costume Designer
Former stylist. She has participated as a costume designer for many films and TV shows, both contemporary and period pieces.
In 2023, she collapsed due to hemorrhage from a brain tumor and continues to suffer from consciousness disorders.
She is undergoing daily Spartan rehabilitation by her three sons.
She is undergoing daily Spartan rehabilitation by her three sons.
- Hideyuki Kurosawa
- Costume Designer
After climbing the ladder as an assistant to Kazuko Kurosawa, he made his debut as a costume designer for the movie Revolver Lily.
In his childhood, Akira Kurosawa also acknowledged Hideyuki's sensibility with colors.
When his mother Kazuko collapsed, he chose Hideyuki Kurosawa as his professional name in order to carry on her will.
He is also in charge of two works that are currently unreleased.
In his childhood, Akira Kurosawa also acknowledged Hideyuki's sensibility with colors.
When his mother Kazuko collapsed, he chose Hideyuki Kurosawa as his professional name in order to carry on her will.
He is also in charge of two works that are currently unreleased.
- So Kurosawa
- Costume Designer and former Animator
After climbing the ladder as an assistant to Kazuko Kurosawa, he debuted as a costume designer with her second son Hideyuki for the movie Revolver Lily.
He is adept at researching into different time periods, and has an exceptional wealth of knowledge about stories during the Warring States period. He draws designs and illustrations that leverage on the art skills he obtained as an animator.
He is also in charge of two works that are currently unreleased.
He is adept at researching into different time periods, and has an exceptional wealth of knowledge about stories during the Warring States period. He draws designs and illustrations that leverage on the art skills he obtained as an animator.
He is also in charge of two works that are currently unreleased.
- Takayuki Kato
- Representative Director of K&K Bros. Ltd.
While managing the company, he writes scripts for his own films.
He has completed scripts for two titles up to now.
He has completed scripts for two titles up to now.
- Gigi
- Assistant to the assistant costumer designers
Jiji is a black cat that wandered into the studio on the anniversary of Akira Kurosawa’s death on September 6th.
Our company manages the copyrights and portrait rights to Akira Kurosawa.
For inquiries regarding the copyrights and portrait rights to Akira Kurosawa, various rights to Kazuko Kurosawa, and scripts by Takayuki Kato, please contact us via email below.
Name
K&K Bros. Co., Ltd.
Location
2-10-14 Tamazutsumi, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-0087, Japan