Born 1977, Tokyo, Japan. Film director, whose feature film One Song was selected for the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2011 and made its theatrical debut in 2012. His second feature film, Song of Light, was selected for the 2017 Tokyo International Film Festival and the 2018 Jeonju International Film Festival and will be released theatrically in 2019. The film received high praise in major newspapers and the film magazine Kinema Junpo, and word of mouth spread, leading to a nationwide theatrical release. He has also published the novels Kawa no Koibito (River Lovers) and Hitotsu no Uta (One Song) (in the literary magazine Subaru), and participated as a photographer in the fourth poetry collection Uta Long Long Short Song Long by the poet Koichi Masuno (Raitosha), and continues to work widely.