Writer & directorTokyo, Japan
Screenplays, fiction and writing about filmmaking.
A family running an inn in a fading rural town is divided over whether to preserve it or sell it.
2023 · Screenplay support. Directed by Daichi Murase.
Nara International Film Festival 2022 · NARAtive premiere (earlier version)
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2023 · New Directors Closing Film
Busan International Film Festival 2023 · A Window on Asian Cinema
Original screenplay · Second-stage NHK review, 2023
Selected among 11 scripts for second-stage review in NHK’s 2023 recommendation process for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab / Sundance–NHK Award.
Public installment 001–1: Makoto. By Nicholas R. Zabaly and Masashi Kawamata.
Read published chapterChapter 1, published by Masashi Kawamata.
Read published chapterThe published first chapter of JAPIEN, by Masashi Kawamata.
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