---
name: "Keiko Mitsumatsu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/keiko-mitsumatsu"
fi1m_id: "keiko-mitsumatsu"
imdb_id: "nm1709653"
tmdb_id: 93071
wikidata_id: "Q139437792"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 88
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-02T21:59:17.366580+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."
---

# Keiko Mitsumatsu

## Identity

Keiko Mitsumatsu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/keiko-mitsumatsu
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** keiko-mitsumatsu
- **IMDb ID:** nm1709653
- **TMDB ID:** 93071
- **Wikidata ID:** Q139437792
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139437792, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1709653/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93071

Production designer. Born in Chiba, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 2004–2018
- **Also known as:**  三ﾂ松けいこ
- **Frequently works with:** [Hirokazu Kore-eda](https://film.one/person/hirokazu-kore-eda.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 87 (1), 2010s 89 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139437792, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1709653/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/93071

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Shoplifters*](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md) (89)
- **AMC+:** [*Nobody Knows*](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md) (87)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Keiko Mitsumatsu is a Japanese production designer and art director. She graduated from the Nikkatsu Art Academy and began working in film in the late 1990s.

She is best known for her long collaboration with director Hirokazu Kore-eda, serving as production designer on *Nobody Knows* (2004), *Still Walking* (2008), *Like Father, Like Son* (2013), *Our Little Sister* (2015), *Shoplifters* (2018) and *Monster* (2023). She has also worked frequently with director Miwa Nishikawa. Mitsumatsu received the Excellent Art Award at the 42nd Japan Academy Awards for her work on *Shoplifters*.

*Sources: imdb.com, natalie.mu, jfdb.jp.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Shoplifters* (2018), Fi1m 89, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md)
- *Nobody Knows* (2004), Fi1m 87, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

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

- *Renoir* (2025), as Art Direction
- *Asura* (2025), series, Production Design
- *Monster* (2023), Production Design
- *The Fish Tale* (2022), as Decorator
- *Colorless* (2021), Production Design
- *Under the Open Sky* (2021), Production Design
- *The Devil Wears Ju-Ni Hitoe Kimono* (2020), Production Design
- *Hot Gimmick: Girl Meets Boy* (2019), as Art Direction
- *A Banana? At This Time of Night?* (2018), Production Design
- *Life in Overtime* (2018), Production Design
- *Shoplifters* (2018), Production Design — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/shoplifters.md)
- *The 8-Year Engagement* (2017), Production Design
- *Drowning Love* (2016), Production Design
- *Her Love Boils Bathwater* (2016), as Set Decoration
- *The Long Excuse* (2016), Production Design
- *After the Storm* (2016), Production Design
- *Our Little Sister* (2015), Production Design
- *Like Father, Like Son* (2013), Production Design
- *Dreams for Sale* (2012), Production Design
- *I Wish* (2011), as Art Direction
- *Fa no tofu* (2011), Production Design
- *In a Lonely Planet* (2011), as Art Direction
- *Dear Doctor* (2009), Production Design
- *Kanikôsen* (2009), as Art Direction
- *Still Walking* (2008), as Art Direction
- *Adrift in Tokyo* (2007), Production Design
- *Rabbit on the Moon* (2007), Production Design
- *from DARK* (2007), Production Design
- *M* (2006), as Decorator
- *Sway* (2006), Production Design
- *Nobody Knows* (2004), Production Design — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md)
- *Distance* (2001), Production Design
- *Don't Look Back* (1999), Production Design
- *The Bird People in China* (1998), Production Design
- *Seraphim Night* (1996), as Props

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