Director / Editor

Hideto Hotta

堀田英仁

Tokyo, Japan

Filmmaker and Film Director based in Tokyo, working across Music Video, commercials, documentary and fashion film. Graduate of Meiji University. His stated creed, repeated across every profile, is to dig into a person, depict society through them, and carry that across. He began shooting on a zero budget and is largely self-taught, which is how he is introduced in the MV Impressionists series on directors who leave an immediate visual impression. Selected for 100 Video Artists in 2021, listed under CM, documentary and music video. The house director for the YENTOWN orbit and a regular for Japanese hip hop: Awich “Brainwash” feat. Dogma and Chinza DOPENESS, “Bad Bitch Aesthetics” and the “Wax on Wax off” Japan Remix produced by RZA; kZm “27CLUB” feat. LEX; Bad Hop; Nene “icon” and “end”; YENTOWN “Baguri”; Watson x Ta-Sonsi; Fuji Taito x Seeda. Beyond Hip Hop: gezan, chai (two videos), Tatsuya Kitani, Aimyon “I Became Strong, Blue”, Keisuke Kuwata “Charmer”, the illit brand film, and an exhibition piece for The Sound of ‘Akira’. He edits his own work, credited as director / Offline Editor on most of it.