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Documentary, 89minutes, 2017

UJAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL Special Prize, Apricot Tree International Documentary Film Festival

Best Documentary Award, Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Awards

This is a story about a mountain village in Japan. Like many other local villages in Japan, the population of this village is aging as well as decreasing. The film is focusing on the process of change and stage as a knot where various actors, including a filmmaker, interact with each other. While the whole film depicts a process of inevitable change of the traditional village located in the global world, it shows a process of discovering precious memories as well as lively voices of respective individuals recalled through dialog with the filmmaker.

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Whilst waiting for the customer

Documentary, 15minutes,2008 (co-directed with Elise Castberg)

This film follows the day to day life within an African hair salon and a clothes shop north of the polar circle, and follows the prevalent social and bodily relationships.

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そこにこもる…　What Inhabits Here

Documentary, 38minutes,2007 (co-directed with Yuta Hagiwara)

There is a small musical instruments shop in Tokyo, Japan. The shop is filled with handmade guitars and original instruments made the most of character of wood. The person who runs the shop is Yoshinori Hanamura, who is 70 years old. He said he needs not only to polish skill but also to concentrate myself, deepen his personality, and keep that condition in order to make good works. Work progresses little by little. Time passes slowly up here in the shop. This is a story about forming belief through the long lasting relationship between the old craft man and the guitar as well as the touchable world surrounding him.