Kohta Asakura is a director and visual artist based in NYC.

 

Director's Reel

Download Resume

 

Contact

masterchef@kohtaskitchen.com

 

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Kohta is the co-founder of the creative collective and production company, Satan's Pearl Horses and the Crimson Underworld.

 

 

Works highlighted in WHITE have their own minisite with further project information and details.

Corpus

Femme

Breadcrumbs

09.05.05 (Barbara Bush)

I Don't Have Any Fun

Alan Cumming for GLAAD

Essence Music Festival

Director's Reel

Corpus

Short Film

Starring Jimmy Sakai

Edited by Nikolai S Antonie

Collaboration with composer Daniel Wohl

From The Margins, This, Unmentioned

Short Film

Starring Tara Wallace and Kenneth Ruth

Art Direction by Nikolai S Antonie, Jimmy Sakai

Collaboration with composer Bryan Senti

Based on the poems by Kat Mandeville

Planet

Short Film

Starring Jimmy Sakai

Written and Directed by Kohta Asakura

Art Direction by Nikolai S Antonie, Jimmy Sakai

Sweet Light Crude

 

Music Video

Newspeak

Femme

 

Commercial

Skinny Vinny

Homme

 

Commercial

Skinny Vinny

09.05.05 (Barbara Bush)

 

Music Video

The Katrina Ballads

Ted Hearne

I Don't Have Any Fun

 

Music Video

The Little Death, Vol. 1

Matt Marks

Dave, You Are Killing Me

 

Music Video

Vagina Panther

Alan Cumming for GLAAD*

 

Commercial

GLAAD.org

*DP: Ed Stephenson

Halle Berry

 

Short Documentary

Warner Bros.

Mary J. Blige

 

Short Documentary

Warner Bros,

Cold-Hearted Town*

 

Music Video

New Atlantic

*DP: Ian A. Dudley

Our Disney Story

 

Web Series

Warner Bros.

The End Is Near

 

Music Video

Fiery Furnaces

Fab In A Flash

 

Web Series

Warner Bros.

The One Who Finds*

 

Short Film

*DP: Jamie Carreiro

Breadcrumbs

 

Title Sequence

Breadcrumbs (Feature Film)

House of Tomorrow

 

Commercial

Putnam Books/Penguin Group

Essence Music Festival

 

Motion Graphics Open

Warner Bros.

Essence Mobile

 

Commercial

Warner Bros.

Essence Dotcom

 

Commercial

Warner Bros.

Tribute to Bishop TD Jakes

 

Motion Graphics Open

Warner Bros.

VH1 Hip-Hop Honors

 

Motion Graphics Open

Warner Bros.

The Couch: A Final Farewell

 

Short Film

Starring Jimmy Sakai and my 15 year old couch

Tribute to Michael Jackson

 

Commercial

Warner Bros.

An Evening of Excellence

 

Motion Graphics Package

2009 Congressional Black Caucus Awards


Credit Notes:

Collaboration with Madoka Katayama: The End is Near, Essence Music Festival, Essence Mobile, Essence Dotcom

Lead Animator (Stop-Motion), Jimmy Sakai: Dave, You Are Killing Me, House of Tomorrow

Satan's Pearl Horses/Planet is Nikolai S Antonie, Kohta Asakura, and Jimmy Sakai.