Born in 1989. Graduated from the Japan Institute of the Moving Images and began his career as an assistant director on films such as Nobuhiro Yamashitas The Drudgery Train (2012) and Shunji Iwais The Case of Hana & Alice (2015). He later joined Shin-Ei Animation and produced Crayon Shinchan the Movie: Crash! Rakuga-Kingdom and Almost Four Heroes (2020). His latest project, the Japan-France co-production Ghost Cat Anzu (2024), has received international acclaim, being invited to the Directors Fortnight at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and the Competition Section of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and is set to screen in many other countries. 

Accolades

Yoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita and Keiichi Kondo and Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron and Hiroyuki Negishi
Best Animated Film, 2024

Yoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita and Keiichi Kondo and Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron and Hiroyuki Negishi

Best Animated Film, 2024

Yoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita and Keiichi Kondo and Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron and Hiroyuki Negishi

Ghost Cat Anzu

Eleven-year-old Karin is abandoned by her father at the house of her grandfather, the monk of a small town in the Japanese countryside. Her grandfather…

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Films

Ghost Cat Anzu

Ghost Cat Anzu

Japan, France

Ghost Cat Anzu

Eleven-year-old Karin is abandoned by her father at the house of her grandfather, the monk of a small town in the Japanese countryside. Her grandfather…

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