Director / Photographer / Cinematographer / DP

Tomokazu Yamada

山田智和

Tokyo, Japan

Japanese Filmmaker, film director and photographer, Graduated from the film course of Nihon University college of art. Leads the creative team Tokyo Film and has been with caviar since 2015. His short “47SECONDS” won the wired creative hack award grand prix 2013 and a silver at the New York Festivals 2014; “A Little Journey” won the GR Short Movie Award Grand Prix the same year. Directed both Kenshi yonezu’s “Lemon” and aimyon’s “marigold”, the two defining Japanese pop songs of 2018, and was named best video director at the space shower music awards 2019 for them; best video of the year at MTV VMAJ 2018, and again at VMAJ 2020. Also Kid Fresino, Fujii Kaze, Hiroji Miyamoto, Wednesday Campanella, Sakanaction and Superorganism, the GMO Click Securities commercial series with Yui Aragaki, drama and film. His signature is a cinematic treatment of contemporary urban landscape, neon, water, light and dark, the moving body, and he describes himself as Filmmaker precisely because it covers commercials, MVs, drama, film AND photography in one word.