Born in 1955. Filmmaker, director, visual artist. Starting out in music video clips, has branched out to a wide range of fields including stage and music events (over 20), TV dramas (over 100 episodes), TV commercials (16), and films (9 to date). His film 'Keizoku/eiga (2000)' (Keizoku: Beautiful Dreamer) recorded a box office hit in Japan.