is a

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and

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, known for his 2009 film ''

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'', which premiered at the

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, and '' A Boy and His Samurai'', which won the Audience Award at the 2011

Life

He was born on 25 August 1970 in

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, Japan. He went to

Seijo University is a private university in Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. It is operated by the Seijo Gakuen institute. Seijo University has its origins in Seijo Gakuen (成城学園), which was founded in 1917 by Dr. Masataro Sawayanagi, a former Ministe ...

Department of Arts and Literature. While there he joined the Film Research Club and started

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making, and in 1993 won the PIA Film Festival Grand Prix with "Summer Rain Kitchen". After graduating he worked as assistant director on films with

Yoichi Sai was a Japanese film director. He was the president of the Directors Guild of Japan. Life and career Sai was born on 6 July 1949 in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. His mother was Japanese and his father was Zainichi Korean. Sai won the Best Screenpla ...

Hideyuki Hirayama is a Japanese film director. His theatrical debut was the film '' Maria's Stomach'' in 1990. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for ''The Games Teachers Play'' in 1992. In 1995, ''School Ghost Stories'' was a big hit and mad ...

and

Juzo Itami , born , was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed eleven films (one short and ten features), all of which he wrote himself. Early life Itami was born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi in Kyoto. The name Itami was passed on from his fath ...

. In 1999 he made his debut as an independent director with "Local News". That year he worked to direct, organise and produce many films that made into the "It's True! Cursed Films" series. In 2004 together with scriptwriter Ken'ichi Suzuki and editor Tooru Hosokawa he formed the

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unit "Assembly of Little Pigeons". In 2007 he won the Kaneto Shindō Prize given to the most promising new director by the Japan Film Makers' Association. In 2010 he worked as a narrator on the "It's True! Cursed Films" series.

Filmography

Film

* '' Lizard Baby'' (2004) * ''@Babymail'' (2005) * ''Asoko no Seki'' (2005) * '' The Booth'' (2005) * ''Route 225'' (2006) * ''The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker'' (2007) *'' The Glorious Team Batista'' (2008) *''The Triumphant Return of General Rouge'' (2009) * ''

'' (2009) * ''Golden Slumber'' (2010) * '' A Boy and His Samurai'' (2010) * ''Chips'' (2012) * '' See you tomorrow, everyone'' (2013) * ''Miracle Apples'' (Kiseki no ringo) (2013) * ''

The Snow White Murder Case is a 2014 Japanese mystery thriller film directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura. Plot Yuji Akahoshi (Gou Ayano) receives a phone call from an old high school friend, Risako Kano (Misako Renbutsu). She tells him that her co-worker at a cosmetics company ...

'' (2014) * ''

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'' (2015) * '' The Inerasable'' (2015) * '' The Magnificent Nine'' (2016) * '' Mumon: The Land of Stealth'' (2017) * ''The 47 Ronin in Debt'' (2019)

Television

* ''

Dark Tales of Japan is a 2004 made-for-TV film anthology of five short horror stories, directed by five notable Japanese film directors, which are told through a mysterious old lady in kimono on a late-night bus travelling on a long isolated mountain road. Plot su ...

'' (2004) episode "Kumo Onna"

References

External links

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