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I’m a very bored person. I was the kind of elementary school student who drew pictures and played pretend games while building a secret base and exploring underground water. In junior high school, I enjoyed studying. But when I entered high school, I got bored. I started watching a lot of dramas and movies. One of them was a drama called “N no tameni” (For N). This mean is “For N.”It was the first drama that caught my attention, or rather, made me think that I liked acting and directing. That is how I came to want to make movies.

In my third year of undergrad, I left the seminar and started doing photography and installations. I decided to pursue a master’s degree at Tokyo University of the Arts because I wanted to study film photography properly.

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I have been given the freedom to work on videos. I was asked to make a video for the Nagoya City Fire Department, which was the first video I shot for work.
I have also shot music videos and films. All of my independent productions are basically fiction. I produce, direct, shoot, and edit everything myself, but in the future I would like to try concentrating on directing.

Basically, I am the type of person who would like to see what the actors are thinking first. I like the scene itself, or rather, as a director, when I am witnessing a play at its best. I think of it as a job where souls collide against souls. It’s fun.

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For me, I feel that a film cannot be made without anger toward the world. I think I am probably more angry at the world than other people. In my graduation project “Film,” I handled the graduation of idols. I felt that there is still a sense of value that female idols should graduate when they get older. What about the sense of values that women are only good when they are young? That’s why I made the film.

When I made the film, I needed to make it a bit entertaining, or at least have an interesting story. I often include fantasy elements in my films. In the case of “Film,” I developed the story by setting up a film camera that can rewind time. It’s fun to think about, but it’s also a difficult part.

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I make artwork for myself to face my anger. When I make a work of art, I am able to face my anger, and I can objectively see how I am feeling now. I don’t make my work very straight, so I am often told that it is difficult to understand. If it is difficult to understand, it gives the viewer an opportunity to think, “Maybe this is how I feel now. I think it broadens their thinking. It is not so much that I want my ideas to be conveyed, but rather I want the viewer to think about the theme for themselves.

I also enjoy photography. With digital photography you can take as many pictures as you want, so taking pictures tends to be the goal. But with film, I can spend more time with the person I am photographing and get to know them.
From this experience, I realized For me, the distance between the person taking the picture and the person being photographed is important.It may sound cruel, but I think that the photographer’s feelings, whether he likes it or not, are clearly visible in a photograph.

When I take a picture, I feel that I can take a better picture if I take two or three steps away from the subject than I thought I could. I wanted to be aware of this in my videos as well. I think I have changed the way I read composition, or rather, I have gained a bird’s eye view of the scene. I became more aware of things like margins.

I am a person who gets bored easily, but I have been doing film and photography for five years now. I hope to continue to do so for a long time to come.

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