is a Japanese

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. His film ''

Shizumanu Taiyō (lit. ''The Never-setting Sun'') is a 2009 Japanese film directed by Setsurō Wakamatsu. It is also known as ''The Unbroken'' in the United States. ''Shizumanu Taiyō'' is based on a novel by Toyoko Yamasaki which centers on Hajime Onchi, an em ...

'' won the

Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in th ...

at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize.

Filmography

Film

*'' Whiteout'' (2000) *''

The Unbroken ''The Unbroken'' is a 2021 epic fantasy novel, the debut novel by C. L. Clark. It is the first book in a planned trilogy entitled ''Magic of the Lost''; it was followed by a sequel entitled '' The Faithless'' in 2023. It received critical acclai ...

'' (2009) *''

Before Sunrise ''Before Sunrise'' is a 1995 Romance film, romantic drama film directed by Richard Linklater and co-written by Linklater and Kim Krizan, and is the first installment in the Before trilogy, ''Before'' trilogy. In the film, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) an ...

'' (2011) *'' Snow on the Blades'' (2014) *''

Fukushima 50 Fukushima 50 is a pseudonym given by English-language media to a group of employees at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011, a related Fuku ...

'' (2020) *''Silence of the Sea'' (2024)

Television

*''

Water Margin ''Water Margin'' (), also called ''Outlaws of the Marsh'' or ''All Men Are Brothers'', is a Chinese novel from the Ming dynasty that is one of the preeminent Classic Chinese Novels. Attributed to Shi Nai'an, ''Water Margin'' was one of the e ...

'' (2026)

References

External links

* Living people People from Akita (city) Japanese film directors 1949 births {{Japan-film-director-stub