Takuya UCHIYAMA

内山拓也

Takuya UCHIYAMA


Takuya UCHIYAMA, born in Niigata in 1992, worked as a stylist after graduating from the Bunka Fashion College. Soon after, he decided to become a filmmaker and studied under the director Ryota NAKANO. He won the audience award at the PIA Film Festival in 2016 for his feature-length debut VANITAS (2016). What followed were music videos and the medium-length film BLUE FOREST (2018). His second feature SASAKI IN MY MIND (2020 / NC ’21) was backed by crowdfunding and won the Kaneto Shindo Silver Award in 2020.

Films shown at Nippon Connection

Layers, Japan 2021 (Director) NC23
Sasaki In My Mind, Japan 2020 (Director) NC21
Sasaki In My Mind, Japan 2020 (Script) NC21