Eiko Mizuno-Gray

Biography

Eiko Mizuno-Gray began her career at the Toronto International Film Festival as a publicist. She is the CEO and delegate producer at Loaded Films in Tokyo, where she focuses on international co-productions. She has produced Magic Kimono, starring Kaori Momoi and Issey Ogata (Latvia-Japan), Ten Years Japan (Japan-Hong Kong, executive-produced by Hirokazu Kore-eda) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth (Japan-Uzbekistan-Qatar). She also produced Kurosawa’s episode of Amazon Prime series Modern Love Tokyo. Her 2022 production of Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75 won the Camera d'Or Special Mention in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and was Japan’s official Oscar entry. Her latest production, Hayakawa’s Renoir, was selected in the official competition at Cannes 2025 and won several international awards. She is currently developing Kei Ishikawa’s Japan-Poland coproduction Excursion, Chie Hayakawa’s Myopia, and Atsuko Hirayanagi’s The Returning. Eiko is also a graduate of EAVE’s Producer’s Workshop and the Torino Feature Lab.