Photographer, Film Director Born on April 3, 1940 Educated in Jiyu Gakuen and Tokyo General Photography Special School Collections of his photographs: * YAMA (A Coal Mine)           » received The Fifth Taiyo Prize * SAHKASU NO JIKAN (Time of a Circus) * UOGASHI HITO NO MACHI (Town of a Fish Market) * MUGEN HOYO (Infinite Embrace)           » received The Annual Award of Japan Professional Photographers Society,           » received The Shashin no Kai Award * NAHJA NO MURA (Nadya's Village)           » received The 17th Domon Ken Prize Prize * AREKUSEI TO IZUMI (Alexei and the Spring) * IRAKU NO CHIISANA HASHIWO WATATTE (On a small bridge in Iraq) His films: * Nadya's Village / 1997           » An official entry at the Berlin International Film Festival           » Won the OEKOMEDIA Prize of the City of Freiburg (the Grand Prix) at Oekomedia '98,           » Golden Maile Prize (the Grand Prix) at the Hawaii International Film Festival              Documentary section           » NETPAC Prize at Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, etc. * Alexei and the Spring/ 2002           » "Readers' Prize of the Berliner Zeitung" and "International Cine              Club Prize" in Berlin International Film Festival           » "The Prize Centaur" (the Grand Prix) in St. Petersburg International              Film Festival "Message to Man"           » "GOLDEN LYNX" for Best Artistic Achievement in ÖKOMEDIA FESTIVAL           » "AQCC Critics Award" in MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 31st Edition