After gaining experience in a wide range of animation production roles, he made his feature directorial debut with MIND GAME, which won the Animation Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival. He went on to direct such series as The Tatami Galaxy (2010) and Ping Pong the Animation (2014), and co-founded the animation studio SCIENCE SARU in 2013. The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl (2017) won Animation of the Year at the Japan Academy Film Prize, while Lu Over the Wall (2017) received the Cristal for a Feature Film at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Inu-Oh (2021) was selected for the Orizzonti section of the Venice International Film Festival.
From Busan International Film Festival 2026, No. 31
