Stories — Turning Points
The one outside the films:
me.
These are not explanations of my films. This is a place where I write, in my own words, about who I was before I held a camera, who I was when I was shaken in the field, and who I still am without answers. Why don't I want to give up on any life, however small? I hope you can gently touch what lies deepest behind that reason.
Origin
A life that was never recorded.
Born without a family register, I was a child who did not exist anywhere on paper. Bullying, thinking about death at 18, a pastor on the street and a church, and the first film I made. The story at the root of everything.
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Gift & Craft
Believing in the gift.
Days as a director in Tokyo.
From working a supermarket register, I kept teaching myself film, went independent and moved to Tokyo. Commercials, music videos, work for major companies. A record of the years I ran as a director, valuing care for people more than budgets.
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Journalist
The turning point:
Bangladesh.
From sea lions in Hokkaido to a suicide-prevention helpline during the pandemic, a national NHK broadcast, and the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. The days I woke up as a journalist.
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Founding
Letting the current carry me.
The day WAVE CREATIVE began.
I grew up with discrimination, and in 2021 I had a company of my own. The meaning I put into the name, “letting the current carry me,” and the starting point of giving back to society. A record of the day I registered it, on my 28th birthday.
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Recovery
Setbacks, and a season of recovery.
Crossing the sea with my mother.
The end of my twenties, when I ran until I was close to burning out. I went to the Philippines to recover. In the hometown I traced with my mother, I heard my birth father's name for the first time. An unfinished record of my roots.
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Frontline — Now
Staying, and bearing fruit.
To the frontlines of an international NGO.
After the journey of recovery, I decided to use the gift of film for society. A record of how I chose to stand on the frontlines as video staff for an international NGO. Not visiting to film, but staying.
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Let's write the rest of the story together.
Please feel free to get in touch about reporting, talks or film production. I will give shape to the story only you can tell.