Ko Mori (Producer)
Mori is president of LA-based sales agent, producer and US and worldwide distributor Eleven Arts, Inc. Eleven Arts' catalog contains over 70 feature length films and more than 200 TV episodes. Eleven Arts attends all the major films markets, including AFM, Berlin, Cannes and Toronto, and has significant relationships with buyers around the globe. New titles represented by Eleven Arts include The Perfect Witness starring Wes Bentley, Noriko's Dinner Table directed by Sion Sono and Tokyo Gore Police.
As a producer, Mori made Haunted Highway (a.k.a. Death Ride), released theatrically in Japan and around the world, and available in the US on DVD from Lionsgate. As a U.S. domestic distributor, Eleven Arts released Japanese Samurai film Love and Honor directed by Yoji Yamada (Academy Award-nominated Twilight Samurai) in theaters across the U.S.. Eleven Arts also released Memories of Tomorrow which played in U.S. theaters for more than 5 months and is the most recent film starring Japanese icon Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Letters from Iwo Jima).