Koji Fukada (深田 晃司, Fukada Kōji, born 1980 in Koganei, Tokyo) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

[1][2] It was when he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the Film School of Tokyo that he began taking evening classes in filmmaking.

[4] He joined the Seinendan theater troupe, headed by Oriza Hirata, in 2005, and has often used their work and their actors in his films.

[1][2] Fukada has said that he was strongly influenced by the films of Eric Rohmer, particularly The Green Ray,[1] and was inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing Children of Paradise and The Spirit of the Beehive.

[2] His film Hospitalité won the Best Picture Award in the Japanese Eyes competition of the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2010.