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Gen Fukunaga (福永 元, Fukunaga Gen, born March 22, 1962) is a Japanese-born American engineer and entrepreneur. He established Funimation (now Crunchyroll), a company that distributes anime in Canada and the United States. He served as its president and chairman until 2019, where he stepped down.
May 9, 2017 · When Fukunaga began contemplating entrepreneurship in his early 30s, he remembered his boyhood interest and targeted a wide-open market. “We saw a problem in the Hollywood-style business,” he ...
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Jan 14, 2019 · Fukunaga is the founder and CEO of Funimation, now a wholly owned division of Sony Pictures Television. The company’s fortunes waxed and waned and its future weighed in the balance several...
He is a producer and production manager, known for Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018), Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007) and Steins;Gate (2011). He is married to Cindy Brennan Fukunaga. They have three children. More at IMDbPro. Contact info.
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Gen Fukunaga is an entrepreneur and investor. He recently retired from Funimation Entertainment which he had founded in 1994, sold in 2005 to a public company, purchased back in 2011, and sold to Sony Pictures in October 2017. Mr. Fukunaga has been actively investing in various early-stage projects since 2005.
Mini Bio. Gen Fukunaga was born on March 22, 1961 in Itami, Hyogo, Japan. He is a producer and production manager, known for Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018), Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007) and Steins;Gate (2011). He is married to Cindy Brennan Fukunaga. They have three children. Family. Spouse.
