---
name: "Josef Kubota Wladyka"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/josef-kubota-wladyka"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "21 September 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T18:41:48.381788+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Josef Kubota Wladyka

Director. Born 21 September 1981 in Fairfax, Virginia, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 21 September 1981, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
- **Active:** 2015–2018
- **Also known as:** Josef Wladyka
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as director, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Kubota_Wladyka, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106318978, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2129610/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1304310

## Coming up

- *Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!* (2026-09-23), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*The Terror*](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md) (82)
- **Netflix:** [*Narcos*](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md) (76)

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## Biography

Josef Kubota Wladyka is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer. He was born on 21 September 1981 in Fairfax, Virginia. He holds an MFA from New York University’s Tisch Graduate Film School, where he received the Spike Lee Fellowship.

Wladyka made his feature directorial debut with *Manos sucias* (2014), which won Best New Narrative Director at the Tribeca Film Festival and received Independent Spirit Award nominations. His second feature, *Catch the Fair One* (2021), was also nominated for Independent Spirit Awards. He has directed episodes of television series including *Narcos* (2016–2017), *Fear the Walking Dead* (2017), *Animal Kingdom* (2017), *Narcos: Mexico* (2018), *The Terror* (2019), *Tokyo Vice* (2022–2024) and *ONE PIECE* (2023).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Terror* (2018), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md)
- *Narcos* (2015), Fi1m 76, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!* (2026), Director, Producer, Writer
- *ONE PIECE* (2023), series, Director
- *Tokyo Vice* (2022), series, Director, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Catch the Fair One* (2022), Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story
- *Narcos: Mexico* (2018), series, Director
- *The Terror* (2018), series, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-terror.md)
- *Animal Kingdom* (2016), series, Director
- *Outcast* (2016), series, Director
- *Narcos* (2015), series, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/narcos.md)
- *Fear the Walking Dead* (2015), series, Director
- *Dirty Hands* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Coney* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Afternoon Rain* (2011), Grip
- *The Rebel* (2006), Writer, Director

## Gallery

- ![Josef Kubota Wladyka](https://film.one/media/person/920980/gallery-ef0c1dbe4107.jpg) Josef Kubota Wladyka — Gabriel Brooks, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Josef_Kubota_Wladyka_at_Ha-chan%2C_Shake_Your_Booty%21_After_Party_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_01.jpg/1280px-Josef_Kubota_Wladyka_at_Ha-chan%2C_Shake_Your_Booty%21_After_Party_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Josef Kubota Wladyka, Director/Co-Writer/Producer, at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival for the movie Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!.](https://film.one/media/person/920980/gallery-43ffe5a1f18e.jpg) Josef Kubota Wladyka, Director/Co-Writer/Producer, at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival for the movie Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!. — Gabriel Brooks, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Josef_Kubota_Wladyka_at_Ha-chan%2C_Shake_Your_Booty%21_After_Party_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_02.jpg/1280px-Josef_Kubota_Wladyka_at_Ha-chan%2C_Shake_Your_Booty%21_After_Party_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Josef Kubota and Family at the Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! After Party at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah](https://film.one/media/person/920980/gallery-195654b30d51.jpg) Josef Kubota and Family at the Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! After Party at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah — Gabriel Brooks, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Josef_Kubota_and_Family_at_the_Ha-chan%2C_Shake_Your_Booty%21_After_Party_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_01.jpg/1280px-Josef_Kubota_and_Family_at_the_Ha-chan%2C_Shake_Your_Booty%21_After_Party_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Josef Kubota and Family at the Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! After Party at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah](https://film.one/media/person/920980/gallery-0ca7ef2cf7eb.jpg) Josef Kubota and Family at the Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! After Party at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah — Gabriel Brooks, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Josef_Kubota_and_Family_at_the_Ha-chan%2C_Shake_Your_Booty%21_After_Party_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_02.jpg/1280px-Josef_Kubota_and_Family_at_the_Ha-chan%2C_Shake_Your_Booty%21_After_Party_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Josef Kubota and Family at the Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! After Party at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah](https://film.one/media/person/920980/gallery-2a688265c175.jpg) Josef Kubota and Family at the Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! After Party at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah — Gabriel Brooks, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Josef_Kubota_and_Family_at_the_Ha-chan%2C_Shake_Your_Booty%21_After_Party_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_03.jpg/1280px-Josef_Kubota_and_Family_at_the_Ha-chan%2C_Shake_Your_Booty%21_After_Party_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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