is a Japanese

costume designer A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costume ...

. She won the 2008 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design. She is the daughter of famous filmmaker

Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a bold, dyna ...

and actress Yōko Yaguchi, her son is actor Takayuki Kato. She is married to the son of actor

Daisuke Katō was a Japanese actor. He appeared in over 200 films, including Akira Kurosawa's ''Seven Samurai'', ''Rashomon'', '' Yojimbo'', and ''Ikiru''. He also worked repeatedly for noted directors such as Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Kenji Mizoguchi ...

. grandson by Kazuko She provided the costumes for '' Zatōichi''.

Recognition

* 2008 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Costume Design - ''

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'' - Won (with

Carlo Poggioli Carlo Poggioli is an Italian costume designer. Biography Poggioli studied and graduated in stage and costume design at the Istituto D'Arte and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. After completing his studies, Poggioli worked in Rome as assi ...

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* Akira Kurosawa Japanese costume designers Best Costume Design Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners 1954 births Place of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Japan-film-bio-stub