Director

Takuma Sato

Directing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 2All crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 2367714

IMDb ID: nm6833235

Known for: Directing

Born: June 11, 1989

Age: 36

Place of birth: Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2019 - 2025

Years active: 7

Average TMDB rating: 7.6

Wikidata: Q101199955

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Biography

Takuma Sato is a Japanese film director from Akita, Japan. After graduating from high school in northern Japan, he entered a university in Tokyo and started to follow filmmaking classes. He completed the New Creator Workshop (NCW) Creator Advanced Course in 2012 and later joined Bunbuku, the production company and collective founded by Hirokazu Kore-eda. His 2014 independent film Don't Say that Word based on his experiences in the soccer club of his high school in Akita won the Film Fan Award and the Audience Award at the Pia Film Festival PFF Awards. He subsequently directed several short films. Set again in Akita, his first nationally-distributed film Any Crybabies Around? won the Best Cinematography Award in Competition at the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival.

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