Canon Nawata

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Sep 28, 1988 (36 years old)

Canon Nawata

Known For

Bad Lands
2h 23m
Movie 2023

Bad Lands

A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-gotten gains puts a huge target on their back.

The Book of Wonders
1h 38m
Movie 2023

The Book of Wonders

This is the crazy bet of a mother ready to do anything to help her 12-year-old son, Louis, wake up from his coma. After Louis' accident, Thelma decides to do for him the "10 things to do before the end of the world" that he had written in his diary. By listening to these adventures, Louis will see how beautiful life is and that he must come back! By fulfilling a teenager's dreams at the age of forty, Thelma will experience an incredible journey that will take her farther than she ever imagined.

Night, Birds Scream
1h 55m
Movie 2022

Night, Birds Scream

Shinichi debuted as a novelist at a young age, but his career has been stagnant for many years. He also has broken up with his girlfriend. His day have now become gloomy. At this time, Yuko and her son moves into Shinichi's home. Yuko is the ex-wife of Shinichi's friend. Shinichi lets them stay at his house. Shinichi writes his novel every night, while Yuko goes out at night to date men. She is conflicted with her feelings to act as a strong parent and to deal with her unspeakable loneliness. Yuko's son, feeling the loss of his father's presence, begins to admire Shinichi. With their living arrangement, Shinichi and Yuko try keep their distance from each other. But one night.. Adapted from the short story "Yoru, Toritachi ga Naku"

Dream Box
Movie 2022

Dream Box

Japan short

Musicophilia
1h 53m
Movie 2021

Musicophilia

Based on webcomic “Musicophilia” by Akira Saso published in 2011, this is a film about Saku Urushibara, a young man with a special ability to understand sounds in nature. His father is a prominent composer, and his younger half-brother is a genius music composer. Due to the success achieved by his father and half-brother, Saku Urushibara has an inferiority complex. He tries to stay away from music because of this, but he ends up enrolling at the University of Arts in Kyoto where his special ability helps him find his own voice in the world of contemporary classical music.

Prisoners of the Ghostland
1h 43m
Movie 2021

Prisoners of the Ghostland

In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman—and his own path to redemption.

Independence of Japan
2h 7m
Movie 2020

Independence of Japan

A group image drama set at the end of the war depicting the unknown struggle of Japanese people who faced the difficult issues.

Red Post on Escher Street
2h 27m
Movie 2020

Red Post on Escher Street

A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actors and actresses answer the open call, but most will only be cast as extras. Can the film come to a completion without accident?

Mrs. Noisy
1h 46m
Movie 2020

Mrs. Noisy

Maki Yoshioka is a novelist and mother. She has been experiencing writer's block. One day, she gets into a disagreement with her neighbor Miwako Wakata over a futon. Maki gets harassed by Miawako increasingly more as the days pass. She decides to write about Miwako Wakata in a novel, but this has unexpected consequences. The small quarell becomes a media sensation.

Love Dart
2h 0m
Movie 2019

Love Dart

Yumeka (Kanon Nawata) whiles away her time making art in a studio left to her by her grandmother, though it appears she’s not attached to the art and may not find real value in it. She sleeps with men easily but seems empty of emotion in general. Even more in a shell is her university friend Tomoko (En Nakagami), a clean freak who cannot get involved with men. Yumeka suggests Tomoko have a tryst with their friend Takaya, but Tomoko is naturally less than interested. She does, however, take up Yumeka’s suggestion to take a job at a softcore porn movie theater and this sets of a chain of events the film follows. There she meets Kyoichi (Ryusuke Fujiwara), a young man who prostitutes himself. The thoroughly opposite Tomoko is intrigued.

Biography

Japanese actor Canon Nawata was born on September 28, 1988 in Osaka, Japan. She came to Tokyo at the age of 18 to begin her acting career. She worked mostly on stage and in 2014 she became the heroine in the stage play "The Adventures of Kobo Abe" directed by the film producer and director Genjiro Arato. She then made her screen debut in the Wayne Wang's film "While The Woman Are Sleeping" in 2016, and in 2019 she starred in Hisashi Saito's film "Love Dart," in which she played the role of a woman who self-mutilates to fill a hole in her heart and sleeps with anyone she can. She acted in Sion Sono's Hollywood debut film " Prisoners of the Ghostland" in 2019, which also marked her own Hollywood debut, and in 2021 she was discovered by director Mike Figgis and acted in his film "Mother Tongue" filmed in Hong Kong. She is well versed in the classical Japanese martial arts ( kobudo ) and has studied at the class (dojo) of Eiji Takakura, a legendary master of kobudo who also worked with Toshiro Mifune. She got a second grade and has studied a wide variety of martial arts, including karate, iai, naginata, jyo, and samurai dance. She can also ride a horse.