---
name: "Norihiro Isoda"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/norihiro-isoda"
fi1m_id: "norihiro-isoda"
imdb_id: "nm0411388"
tmdb_id: 5000
wikidata_id: "Q11588016"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 January 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T16:29:54.776067+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."
---

# Norihiro Isoda

## Identity

Norihiro Isoda

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/norihiro-isoda
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** norihiro-isoda
- **IMDb ID:** nm0411388
- **TMDB ID:** 5000
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11588016
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11588016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411388/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5000

Production designer. Born 1 January 1952 in Nagasaki, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 January 1952, Nagasaki, Japan
- **Active:** 1997–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 88 (1), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11588016, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411388/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5000

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Rental Family*](https://film.one/film/rental-family.md) (58)

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## Biography

Norihiro Isoda is a Japanese production designer and art director. He trained at Daiei Tokyo Studio and made his debut as a production designer in 1987 on Mei Kato's *Oba-ke-chan*.

Isoda has worked extensively with director Takeshi Kitano, serving as production designer or art director on films including *Fireworks* (1997), *Kikujiro* (1999), *Brother* (2000), *Dolls* (2002), *Zatoichi* (2003), *Outrage* (2010) and *Outrage Coda* (2017). Other credits include *Swing Girls* (2004), *The Floating Castle* (2012) and *Rental Family* (2025). He won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Art Direction for *The Floating Castle*.

*Sources: imdb.com, lumiere-a.akamaihd.net.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Rental Family* (2025), Fi1m 58, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/rental-family.md)
- *Fireworks* (1997), Fi1m 88, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/fireworks.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

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

- *Rental Family* (2025), Production Design — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/rental-family.md)
- *Asakusa Kid* (2021), Production Design
- *Honey Lemon Soda* (2021), Production Design
- *Talking the Pictures* (2019), Production Design
- *The Bucket List* (2019), Production Design
- *Dance with Me* (2019), Production Designer
- *Last Winter, We Parted* (2018), Production Design
- *Tokyo Capsule* (2018), Production Design
- *Outrage Coda* (2017), Production Design
- *Your Lie in April* (2016), Production Design
- *Mother's Trees* (2015), Production Design
- *Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen* (2015), Production Design
- *Lingering Spirits* (2014), Production Design
- *The Floating Castle* (2012), Production Design
- *The Terminal Trust* (2012), as Art Direction
- *Outrage* (2010), as Art Direction
- *Solanin* (2010), Production Design
- *Elevator Trap* (2009), as Art Direction
- *Drop* (2009), as Art Direction
- *Achilles and the Tortoise* (2008), Production Design
- *Flowers in the Shadow* (2008), Production Design
- *To Each His Own Cinema* (2007), Production Design
- *Glory to the Filmmaker!* (2007), Production Design
- *Say Hello for Me* (2007), Production Design
- *Nana* (2005), Production Design
- *Takeshis'* (2005), Production Design, Art Direction
- *Swing Girls* (2004), Production Design
- *Shinibana* (2004), Production Design
- *Zatoichi* (2003), Production Design
- *Dolls* (2002), Production Design
- *Brother* (2000), Production Design
- *Kikujiro* (1999), as Art Direction
- *Give It All* (1998), Production Design
- *Suicide Bus* (1998), as Art Direction
- *Fireworks* (1997), Production Design — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/fireworks.md)
- *Immoral Affairs* (1997), as Art Direction
- *Kids Return* (1996), as Art Direction
- *Trouble-Shooters* (1995), Production Design
- *Getting Any?* (1995), Production Design
- *The Tokyo Siblings* (1995), Production Design
- *Sometime, Somewhere* (1992), Production Design

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