Kudo Riho

Other Name: 工藤梨穂

Age: 30

Birthday: 1995

Nationality: Japanese

Gender: Female

Born in 1995, from Fukuoka Prefecture. Inspired by reading "Sakura" by Kanako Nishi, pursued a career in film. Their graduation project from Kyoto University of Arts film department, "Orphans' Blues" (18), won the Grand Prix and Hikari TV Award at the 40th Pia Film Festival "PFF Award 2018" and received high praise from final judge Toma Ikuta. The film also won the Golden KOJIKA Award and Audience Award in the NARA-wave student section of the Nara International Film Festival. The film has been screened domestically and internationally at various film festivals, including Japan Cuts - The Japan Cuts! (North America's largest Japanese film festival) and FILMADRID International Film Festival (Spain), and was released in theaters nationwide in 2019. In "Hadashi de Narashite Misero," they won the PFF Scholarship and made their commercial film debut. The film was selected for the Harbour section of the 51st Rotterdam International Film Festival and has already gained attention from both domestic and international audiences, with an invitation to the world's largest children's film festival, the Giffoni Film Festival (Italy, to be held in July 2022). Source: hadashi-movie.com.