INOUE Hiroki
After graduating from the School of Social Sciences at Waseda University, he worked as a freelance assistant director and producer in the production of films, dramas, and commercials. He also studied under the late director Ishii Teruo and participated in the film Nejishiki produced by Ishii Productions. In 2009, he made his directorial debut with the theatrical release Panic 4 Rooms, a surreal ensemble comedy set in an old apartment in Shimokitazawa, with four screenwriters active in the theater world, including Nozoe Seiji.
He directed and wrote the screenplay for Noroi Utsuri, starring Hotta Mayu, one episode of the omnibus horror film Kurui Hana, which was screened at Shinjuku Cinema Qualite in 2017. His short film Zatsu won the Best Actress award in the Japan category at the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2018, and received high praise both at home and abroad. In 2019, he wrote and directed Yearning for the Witch, one of the films in the third CINEMA FIGHTERS PROJECT anthology film, At That Moment, I Wanted to Cry, which was also screened as a special screening at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
He has also written and directed the theatrically released films Shinshutsu Pomodoro, The Key, and The Unfading Light. The VR film At the Beach, which he directed and wrote, will be officially screened at the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2023.