Korea’s Kakao Entertainment Teams With Japan’s Babel Label, ‘Journalist’ Director Fujii

variety.com:

Naman Ramachandran Korean entertainment company Kakao Entertainment is expanding its global footprint through a new partnership with Japanese content studio Babel Label.

The alliance aims to co-produce new dramatic content and adapt Kakao’s IP library for international audiences. The first collaboration under this partnership will be helmed by Babel Label’s director Fujii Michihito, marking his first project with a Korean company.

Fujii won six awards at the 43rd Japan Academy Film Prize for “The Journalist” (2019), which starred Korean actor Shim Eun-kyung and later became a Netflix series distributed in 190 countries.

His film “Faceless” (2024) won 13 awards across 12 categories at the 48th Japan Academy Film Prize. The Japanese director’s work ialso ncludes “The Last 10 Years” (2022), which generated approximately $20.4 million in Japanese box office revenue while attracting 560,000 viewers in Korea.