Jason Gray

Jason Gray began his career in the Japanese film industry in 2001, working as a translator, journalist and consultant. He served as Japan correspondent for Screen International from 2006-2013. After establishing Loaded Films with Eiko Mizuno-Gray in 2011, he wrote and directed narrative short film Yukuharu (2012), which screened at film festivals in eight countries. He has produced features Magic Kimono (2017), starring Kaori Momoi and Issey Ogata, the anthology film Ten Years Japan (2018) (executive-produced by Hirokazu Kore-eda) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's To the Ends of the Earth (2019), shot entirely in Uzbekistan and which closed the 2019 Locarno Film Festival. Chie Hayakawa's Plan 75 (2022) is his latest production, for which Gray was also credited with co-story. The film won the Camera d'Or Special Mention in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and is the Japan's official entry to the 2023 Oscars.