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Japanese filmmaker who was born in Osaka, where he trained in film at the Visual Arts Academy. His work blends fiction and documentary with a restrained, humanistic approach, often focusing on the lives of those at the margins. He made the feature films “Passage of Life” (2017), winner of the best feature and director awards of the Asian Future section at the Tokyo International Film Festival, and “Along the Sea” (2020), presented at the San Sebastián Film Festival.