TAKUMI　SAITOH　PROFILE 　Takumi Saitoh was born in Tokyo. While he is active as an actor,making his directorial debut with the short, “Sakurairo” in 2012. In 2014 “Hannbun no Sekai” won the Identity Award at the Japanese-Serbian film festival and was nominated for the Digital Award at the International Emmy Awards. Other directorial works include “Balancer” (2014), “Ohashi Trio Album Music Video” (2015), and 2016 documentary releases, depicting the scene backstage at a fashion show ”Embellir”, and a behind-the-scenes look at horse racing. On 2018, His first ever feature film debut, “blank13” was screened at Japan. He won best director in the “Asian new talent” category at the Shanghai International Film Festival and he won 8 prizes stand high in estimation at domestic, Taiwan, Korea and other foreign 2018. In 2018,HBO Asia made the new show are “Folklore” a 6 Asian directors and 6 part horror anthology and Saitoh is one of them. His feature film “TATAMI” was showed world premiere at Sitges Catalunya International Film Festival 2018 and it was a stand high in estimation. TATAMI” was won 3 prizes at “Asian Academy Creative Awards” at Cannes Best Actor in Leading Role Kazuki Kitamura, Best Actress in a leading Role Misuzu Kanno and Best Cinematograohy Shin Hayakawa. The new work that becomes director’s 10th work, He has also taken for the production of 「COMPLY＋－ANCE」(main role: Yuzuki Akiyama) a film which focuses on Japanese compliance is coming Feb 2020. He has also taken part for the production of “FOODLORE” the 2ed title of the same production for HBO Asia and his feature film “Life in a box”. He was wrote first play”Dobu koi 10” for performance unit “ MEME” Saitoh plans and sponsors mobile cinema under the name “Cinema Bird” which brings films to locations with no movie theaters, or which are affected by disaster. To date, mobile cinema presentations, which have garnered enormous public attention, have been brought to Miyagi, Oita, Fukushima , Kumamoto , Okinawa and Hokkaido prefectures in Japan, and even as far as Madagascar and Paraguay in 2017 and Cambodia 2018. Saitoh was produced clay animation “Fairy of film Fri and Mu” is the right of using free movie and made by crowdfunding. He was charged plan, based story, script, voice of character and naming of character. Saitoh is also a widely known as a film buff, and has been writing for the magazine ”Eiga Hiho” for nearly 10 years. He acts as film navigator on WOWWOW satellite broadcasting, which soon celebrates its upcoming 400th broadcast. In 2019, the achievement that continued sending the importance of the place that shared the place of the encounter of the audience and the entertainment called the movie with a producer was evaluated and won “Japan movie P.E.N. Prize special prize for encouragement”. He began appeared for the in September 2017 issue as a motion picture monochrome photographer, and has become renowned for his unique style of capturing actors and actresses in their natural moments at “madame FIGARO Japon”. He won Bronze medal in the photography section with “Shuhari” in “ Salon des beaux art 2018” at the Louvre in Paris. Also, he exhibit his new work “Ohbaitohori”at the Louvre in Paris 2019. 【Individual Award】 2015 Flan d’or award for New comer of the Year 2016 Taksaki Film Festival Best Supporting Actor Award do “The Projects” 2017 In Shanghai International Film Festival Best Director in the “Asian new talent” Category for “blank13 2017 Vladivostok Film Festival Best Actors for “blank13” 2017 Tokyo International Film Festival China film week Gold Grane Best Actor for “ Love affairs in the Afternoon” 2018 Hawaii International Film Festival Halekulani Maverick award for “blank13” 2018 At the Louvre in Paris Salon dex beaux art Bronze medal for “Shuhari” 2019 Tokyo Sports News Film award nominated for “blank13” 2019 Japan Film Pen Club Special Encouragement 2019 WEIBO Account Festival in Japan 2019 Muri-Artist Award 2019 TV Bros, BEST of the year 2019 Photographer ( Mono-chrome photos ) Kinki Kids ,Tadanobu Asano, Cristopher Doyle, Go Ayano, Tasuku Emoto, Takanori Iwata, Tatsuya Nakamura, Shishido Kafka, TAO, Rira Fukushima, Aya Ueto, Taishi Nakagawa, Kentaro Itou, MOROHA, Ogata Issei ,Bong Joon-Ho　,Masaki Suda　and other