Mika Kaurismäki

Mika Kaurismaki is the Finnish director I think gets quietly overshadowed by his brother, but his own filmography earns the respect. Trained at the film school in Munich and decorated with the Pro Finlandia Medal and a French Legion of Honour, he clearly built a career that crossed borders rather than staying boxed into one national scene. What I find appealing is the range, jumping between fiction and music-driven work without losing curiosity. Born in 1955 in the small town of Orimattila, he strikes me as someone who turned a modest origin into a genuinely international body of work, and I respect that persistence.

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Name (English)

Mika Kaurismäki

Name (Japanese)

ミカ・カウリスマキ

Reading

みか・かうりすまき

Born

September 21, 1955 (age 71)

Origin

Orimattila, Päijät-Häme, Finland

Occupation

screenwriter / film producer / film director / actor / film editor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Goat

University

University of Television and Film Munich

Awards & achievements

• 1994 Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland
• 2001 Knight of the Legion of Honour
• 2018 Aho & Soldan lifetime achievement award
• 2015 Annual award ACFK

• Official sitehttps://www.mikakaurismaki.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika%20Kaurism%C3%A4ki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q520747

Tags

• Päijät-Häme
• screenwriter
• film producer
• film director

Last updated

September 21, 2026

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