Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1967, Shinobu YAGUCHI began shooting his first film on 8mm as a student at Tokyo Zokei University. In 1990, his short film THE RAIN WOMEN won the Grand Prize of the renowned PIA Film Festival. Through a scholarship, the festival enabled him to shoot his feature debut DOWN THE DRAIN (1993). With his comedies such as WATERBOYS (2001 / NC ’05), ROBO-G (2012 / NC ’14) and SURVIVAL FAMILY (2017 / NC ’17), he has also found international success.

Takuji SUZUKI was born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1967. He started shooting 8mm films in high school. With his short film NIJI (1987) he won the Special Jury Award at PIA Film Festival. After that, he appeared as an actor in numerous films while continuing to shoot his own films, among them his feature length debut I AM A CAT STALKER (2009) as well as THE WIFE OF GEGEGE (2010), A BAND RABBIT AND A BOY (2013), JOGGING WATARIDORI (2016), and RANDEN (2018).