Acting

Tetsuya Hirosaki

Born in 1971 in Oita, Japan, he entered Meiji University and was a member of the film studies club, making a number of films. In 1996, "BLUE HEARTS", which he directed, wrote and starred in, won the WOWOW Award (for composition and screenplay) and the Winner of the Chante Prize (Audience Prize), and a member of the reporting staff at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands Producer of the 1997 National Student Film Festival. In 1998, the film 'Abashiri Bangaichi' was released in Japan. He worked as an assistant director and actor in the film "Nejishiki", written by Yoshiharu Tsuge and starring Tadanobu Asano, under the direction of the late Teruo Ishii, a genius director known for his outstanding talent. Since then, while working as an assistant director on various films, he has organised the 'BLUE DRAGON MOVIE NIGHT', an independent screening event that has screened over 200 times at a bar in Shinjuku's Golden Gai. In 2003, 'Saraba Golden Street' was screened at Shinjuku Tiny Alice to an audience of 500 people over four days, and was entered in the 2004 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. In 2006, he directed the Akagi, Miyamoto and Taniguchi versions of Kogyo Aika Valley Boys, which was serialised in Young Magazine. He directed The Great Regretful Era.