Born in 1983 in Shizuoka Prefecture, he directed his first feature film Voice of Rain That Comes at Night (2008) while studying at Zokei University in Tokyo, which won the Korean Critics' Prize at Cinema Digital Seoul 2008. His second feature film Hold Your Breath Like a Lover (2014), final work at the Graduate School of Cinema and New Media at the Tokyo University of the Arts, competes at the 67th Locarno International Film Festival in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente.
The Night I Swam (Takara, La Nuit ou j'ai nagé, 2017), co-directed with French filmmaker Damien Manivel, was presented in the Orizzonti section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival, as well as in numerous festivals around of the world. In 2023, he presented the short film Two of Us at the San Sebastian Film Festival, a sort of prequel to his last feature film Super Happy Forever.
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