His speciality is history of cinema and folklore. He wrote and translated more than 20 books in the field of cinema and cultural anthropology. Directed 7 feature documentary films. 5 of them were theatrical released in Japan.
Filmmaker and critic.
He has submitted a 16mm film he made during university school to the Mediawave Festival in Hungary. Experimental film ”In the Darkness of the Space” won the grand prize at Nara Avant-garde Film Festival and was specially screened at the Image Forum Festival.
Since then, 5 of his documentary films “Belgrade1999”, “Muneo-ism” and “Imperial” "A Man Who Became Cinema" "Mlabri in the Woods" has been theatrical released across Japan including Tokyo,Osaka,Nagoya and Yokohama and so on.
"Mlabri in the Woods" was introduced at Cambodia International Film Festival and screened at various international film festivals. "Film Fetish" had its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam and then screened at Jeonju Intetnatinal Film Festival and Bangkok Experimantal Film Festival 7.
He has written books: “Forklore in Borderland”, “Literature in Foreign Land”, “Boundary of Images : Art Film and World Cinema”, “Documentary Film Method”. He won the Suntory Academic Awards with his book “Boundary of Images”.
Written and Edited books: “Filmmakers”, “Chris Marker”, “Immigrants and Minorities in European Cinema”, “ American Avant-garde Movie”, “Apichatpong Weerasethakul”, "Jean Rouch", "Agnes Varda", "Jonas Mekas" and etc.
Translated: “Walter Benjamin’s Grave” by Michael Taussig, “Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture” by Tim Ingold, etc.
Throughout his career, he has worked as a documentary film festival programmer, and a university and vocational school lecturer.
Cinephile JEONJU
Film Fetish
JEONJU International Film Festival
Jeonju
2023
Cinema Regained
Film Fetish
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Rotterdoam
2023
Special Screening
Mlabri in the Woods
Tokyo Documentary Film Festival
Tokyo
2019
Special Screening
A Man Who Became Cinema
Tanabe Benkei Film Festival
Tanabe City
2018
Special Screening
A Man Who Became Cinema
Tokyo Documentary Film Festival
Tokyo
2018
Current City
Tokyo
Gender
Other
Ethnicity
JAPANESE
Eye Color
Other
His speciality is history of cinema and folklore. He wrote and translated more than 20 books in the field of cinema and cultural anthropology. Directed 7 feature documentary films. 5 of them were theatrical released in Japan.
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