Takuma Sato
Directing
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.
Known For
Two inseparable friends move to Kyoto to chase their dreams of becoming maiko, but decide to pursue different passions while living under the same roof.
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
Two single fathers—a divorced comic editor raising his son and a clinic owner suddenly entrusted with his ex-girlfriend’s daughter—team up for shared parenting, navigating chaotic household struggles and personal growth as they redefine family bonds through the messiness of raising kids together.
Papa and Daddy's Home Cooking
A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man.
Any Crybabies Around?
Haruka is a rookie physical therapist at an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Japan. Just after her boyfriend suddenly dumps her, it's set that the very first patient she'll be in charge of through his hospitalization is Mr. Tsuge, who is paralyzed on his left side from a stroke. On the first day of rehabilitation, Tsuge asks Haruka, "Can I go back to my old life?" but she cannot answer.
Sticks and Stones
Natsu is a soccer team assistant at Sanno High School. After a horrible tournament season in the summer, Natsu is requested to resign. She refuses and fights to stay, but eventually ends up leaving.