Masaki Iwana
Personal information
- Known for
- Directing
- Known credits
- 9
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- November 11, 2020
- Place of birth
- Tokyo, Japan
- Also known as
- いわなまさき
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.
