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Mr. Kiyonaga Nakagawa
CEO/President of Comstock Group Inc.

Born in 1947, he set up his first company, Comstock Limited(now operating as CK Entertainment), in 1977 to begin the film business handling all rights. Having distributed David Bowe's music film, "Ziggy Stardust," in 1984, he came to be heavily involved in the theatrical distribution business. After introducing many artistic films, including François Truffaut's and Jean-Luc Godard's films, to Japan, he released "La Belle Noiseuse," the Grand Prix awarded film in Cannes Film Festival 1992, and managed to cause what is still known today as the "trigger" to change the rules set by Eirin, the Japanese censorship authority. In 1998, following the success in the production of "Dobermann" and "TAXi," he was praised in the industry for starting a new wave of the French films in Japan. Such achievements were well recognized by the French government; he was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, French title for knight, for his cultural contribution on December 8, 1998.

Further to the above glorious accomplishments, he once again caused a sensation in the Japanese film industry in 1999, when he distributed a German film, "Run Lola Run." The release of this film brought a major German film boom to Japan. In 2000, he released "The Straight Story," which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and brought audience to tears throughout Japan. In 2003, he introduced "Infernal Affairs" to Japan. This title won the Blue Ribbon prize, the most respected award given to a film in Japan, in February 2004. He had already planned to release "Infernal Affairs II" & "Infernal Affairs III" then.

As CEO/President of Comstock Group, he is currently undertaking co-production of films with foreign parties. He is representing Wild Bunch of France in Japan as well as Show Brother's Library of Hong Kong. he handles their sales for TV channels while he is actively cultivating new media namely in internet and video on demand markets. He has a very keen eye on the future and has constantly been the leader of his time, setting new trends in the industry.

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