is a Japanese

Japanese people

The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

, best known for his 2005 horror film Būsu

The Booth

The Booth is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura and starring Ryuta Sato...

or The Booth.

Life

He was born on the 25th of August 1970 in Ibaraki Prefecture

Ibaraki Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan, located in the Kantō region on the main island of Honshu. The capital is Mito.-History:Ibaraki Prefecture was previously known as Hitachi Province...

, Japan. He went to Seijo University

Seijo University

Seijo University（成城大学）is a private university in Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Seijo University has its origins in ‘Seijo Gakuen（成城学園）’, which was founded in 1917, by Dr. Masataro Sawayanagi, a former Minister of Education...

 Department of Arts and Literature. While there he joined the Film Research Club and started 8 mm film

8 mm film

8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the filmstrip is eight millimeters wide. It exists in two main versions: the original standard 8mm film, also known as regular 8 mm or Double 8 mm, and Super 8...

 making, and in 1993 won the PIA Film Festival Grand Prix with "Summer Rain Kitchen". After graduating he worked as assistant director on films with Yoichi Sai, Hideyuki Hirayama

Hideyuki Hirayama

is a Japanese film director. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for The Games Teachers Play in 1992. He was given a Best Director award at the 2003 Yokohama Film Festival...

 and Jūzō Itami

Juzo Itami

, born , was an actor and a popular modern Japanese film director. Many critics came to regard him as Japan's greatest director since Akira Kurosawa. His 10 movies, all of which he wrote himself, are comic satires on elements of Japanese culture....

. In 1999 he made his debut as an independent director with "Local News". That year he worked to direct, organise and produce many films that made into the "It's True! Cursed Films" series. In 2004 together with scriptwriter Ken'ichi Suzuki and editor Tooru Hosokawa he formed the conte unit "Assembly of Little Pigeons". In 2007 he won the Kaneto Shindō

Kaneto Shindo

, Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His best known films include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note.Shindō has often made films dealing with Hiroshima or the atomic bomb...

 Prize given to the most promising new director by the Japan Film Makers' Association. In 2010 he worked as a narrator on the "It's True! Cursed Films" series.

Filmography

1. A Boy and His Samurai
   A Boy and His Samurai
   is a 2010 Japanese film directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura and based on a manga by Gen Araki.-Cast:* Ryo Nishikido* Rie Tomosaka* Fuku Suzuki* Hiroki Konno* Keisuke Horibe* Hitomi Satō* Shiori Kutsuna* Yūji Nakamura* Jun Inoue...
   
    (2010)
2. Golden Slumber (2010)
3. Fish Story (2009)
4. Route 225 (2006)
5. Būsu
   The Booth
   The Booth is a 2005 Japanese horror film directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura and starring Ryuta Sato...
   
    (2005) (The Booth)
6. Asoko no seki (2005)
7. @beibīmēru (2005)
8. Lizard Baby (2004) (aka Watashi no akachan)
9. Dark Tales of Japan
   Dark Tales of Japan
   is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by five notable Japanese film directors.The five tales are:Episode 1: Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura; teleplay by Yoshihiro Nakamura; starring Shôzô Endô, Yoshinori Okada, Miyako Yamaguchi, Yôko Maki, Anri Sugihara, and Kanako...
   
   , episode Kumo-onna, (2004) (TV)