Filmmaker / Director / Cinematographer / DP

PENNACKY / Kenichiro Tanaka

ペンナッキー / 田中賢一郎

Los Angeles, Japan / USA

Filmmaker and Music Video Director, also credited as his own cinematographer. Studied filmmaking on the Cinematography Course of the film department at Nihon University college of art, then worked from Tokyo; moved to Los Angeles in 2024. Attached to the creative association CEKAI and teaches on its CEKAI Creative Camp. Describes himself as “a single organism that wants to be useful to everyone”. Named in forbes Japan 30 under 30 (2025), entertainment & sports, one of thirty selected from under-thirties across four categories, and in 2023 won best music video at taiwan’s 34th Golden Melody awards, an international award for a Japanese director. Japanese Artists: Aimyon, four videos, “Morning Sun” (2020), “Youth and Youth and Youth”, “Not OK” (2023) and “Super Girl” (2026), plus Hoshino Gen, V6, Okamoto’S, Kinoko Teikoku, yogee new waves and Atarashii Gakko no Leaders (“Tokyo Calling”). Asian and international artists are half his practice: Balming Tiger (“Moving Forward”) and BTS’s RM in Korea, plus artists based in Singapore, indonesia and Taiwan, and Phoenix (“After Midnight”), the reason he is on this directory’s Asian corridor rather than only its Japanese roster. Also jumadiba “UP” and South Penguin “gadja feat.