Works

Under COVID lockdown in Tokyo, London and Madrid, Yukata Cowboy and his friends struggle to conquer the loneliness of quarantine...

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Yukata Cowboy, a guileless Japanese-American street performer, meets Cindy, an American dancer in Tokyo. He guides her through Japan’s cultural maze. They begin to perform together and become romantically involved...

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A dramatic comedy about estranged Chinese twins brought together by a Japanese-American cowboy in Paris. Also reveals the backstory of Yukata Cowboy and shows how living abroad can be a curse or a blessing.

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Cross-cultural comedy series about living in different countries, inspired by the true life mishaps of Japanese-American filmmaker Atsushi Ogata, self-starring as the "Yukata Cowboy".

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Satiric comedy inspired by the fatal shooting of a Japanese exchange student, who knocked on the wrong house while trick-or-treating in Louisiana. Collaboration with Japanese Youtuber MEGWIN TV. 

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A perpetual supporting actor, who lives in the shadow of his famous playwright father, meets his muse, falls in love and struggles to play the lead in his own life. 

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Battle of wits between an elderly lady and a conman in the Japanese countryside.

(Commissioned for the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan. Selected for New Directors New Films (MoMA & Lincoln Center, New York)