Musashi Wakaki
Directing
Biography
Musashi Wakaki is a Japanese Australian director and actor with a drive to tell stories through open and honest collaborations with filmmakers of varying perspectives and experiences. His top priority is to provoke and challenge the audiences' emotional and intellectual understandings surrounding film. All in the hopes to support and encourage change in how we evoke human expressions through the language of cinema.
Known For
A couple bound by drugs and chaos must confront the emptiness of their relationship when the highs fade and only the void remains.
Come Down
A distant son rejects reuniting with his father only to cerebrate their relationship and lack of memories shared.
Mata-ne
Lara, a young musician is force isolated by a smart house system in the hopes that she will create a masterpiece.
Claire
A naive teenager is lured captive into a stranger's home and must escape the abuse she has stepped into.
Lilium
Three lonely people trying to find solace in each other and mend misunderstandings rooted in trauma, cultural taboos and old regrets.
To Spark a Wildfire
A burnt-out white-collar worker stumbles upon a plastic bag in a bustling city. As suffocation drags him out of an anxiety attack toward fleeting peace, an unexpected encounter offers something more than a breath of relief.
Komorebi
A portrait of a man confronting the dread of another day in grief and solitude by the seaside.
The Morning Comes
A man drives in the night, leading to an accident. This moment repeats itself, like a loop, the man reliving the nightmare of this one night. In order to escape, he must face his demons and his worst enemy, no matter the cost.
Reus
A short film documenting a day out with artists practicing their craft through plein air style paintings.
En Plein Air
A daughter residing within a smoke polluted world waits anxiously for her mother's return.
Don't Forget
A dinner date to remember, this short film is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's discussion surrounding the distinction between surprise and suspense.
A Hitchcockian Date
A paranoid woman struggles to maintain her picture perfect relationship when she becomes distracted with a supposed stalker encroaching into her life.