Ikeda Akira is a director and screenwriter who studied art at a film school and English literature at university. His feature Anatomy of a Paper Clip (2013) won the Grand Prize at Rotterdam and Vancouver International Film Festivals. Ambiguous Places (2017) screened in the Japanese Cinema Splash section of Tokyo IFF, while The Blue Danube (2020) received the Special Jury Prize at Tokyo FILMeX.
From Tokyo International Film Festival 2026, No. 39
