Takuya Kato was born in Japan in 1993. He began writing scripts for television and radio at the age of 17, then moved to Italy to study film directing. After returning to Japan, he founded the Takumi Theatre Company, for which he has written and directed around twenty stage productions. He made his feature directorial debut with Grown-ups (2022), followed by Fly On (2023), for which he received the Yoshimitsu Morita Memorial New Director Award at the Yokohama Film Festival. The Day After Sunday is his third feature film.
