Ryota Nakanishi

His theatrical feature film The Rakugo Movie (2012) is his master piece and best seller. He has extensive experiences in all aspects of both filmmaking and social movements. He studied at the best film school in Taiwan, National Taiwan University of Arts where the best Chinese film directors Ang Lee and Hsiao-Hsien Hou had learned filmmaking. Not only he attended their lectures, but also He made US award winning horror short movie Ryota Nakanishi's Moxina (2012) during this Batchelor degree program period at the film department. Besides these, he was one of film school representatives of Taiwan to attend the largest academic film conference Pak Tong Cheuk's Hou Hsiao-Hsien Master Class (2007) (V) at Baptist University Hong Kong in 2007. In which, he dedicated to the series of lectures and conversations with Hsiao-Hsien Hou and representatives of film schools in the Greater China Region. His master piece short horror film won the Best Foreign Short, Roger Corman Award at the largest horror film festival, Fright Night Film Festival in USA in 2012. After graduation from National Taiwan University of Arts, he successfully entered M.F.A. Filmmaking program at Taipei University of the Arts where is the most prestigious film school in Taiwan. He had engaged in making of the S3D film for Taiwan government, Shih-Han Tsao's The Blue Sky (2012) as a directorial assistant and film dialogue translator for the Japanese role. The entire production notes were published as a film book in Taiwan. Then, he transferred into the best film school in Japan, Tokyo University of the Arts and its film department to further develop his film career. In 2011, he went to UCLA and Hollywood to complete his summer program. He attended Michael Moore and Leonard Nimoy 's film and photography classes. He made his fist theatrical feature film debut by making an anthology film, Takeshi Tanaka's The Rakugo Movie (2012). It staring the most famous Japanese actor Takayuki Yamada and the best actress Tsubasa Honda as protagonists, 2013, Japan. This film won the best seller top #1 in drama and comedy categories in Amazon.co.jp and the top #1 best seller record in general sales of DVD category in Oricon. He also had experiences in working with famous film directors as assistant and actor. Such as Palme d'Or winner Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love (2012) which nominated for Palmed'Or at Cannes Film Festival. And Japanese famous film director Takeshi Kitano's Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen (2015). For TV shows, he made six documentary episodes Ryota Nakanishi's "Furusato-Time" (2015) with well known actor Shingo Kazami for the largest cable TV station, J:COM. And he also created TV drama series for NHK-E Television, such as E-TV-Judge with legendary Samurai star Ken Matsudaira . He created and edited homage to Samurai movie and Western movie series, Ken Matsudaira's Ken Matsudaira's the Governor! (2015) (TV) and Ken Matsudaira's the Governor! Part 2 (2015) (TV) . He made professional TV editing works for the series of drama for NHK in 2015. Besides these, his main priority of life has been changed into social movements after graduation of TUA, he had experiences of political campaigns with ex-Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Masahiko Yamada on the 1st. Anti-TPP law suit from May 2015 to June 7, 2017. Then he co-organized anti-Abe regime political campaigns with ex-prime minister of Japan Government Yukio Hatoyama and the richest Japanese politician Ichirô Ozawa for All Japan: Episode II 3.18 Grand Convention -The Force of the People Awakens (2016). TV production, photography and video making in different fields, ranged from independent entities, local to multinational companies (2005-2016). And every thing was meaningful for the next. 6 TV shows for major TV stations and 6 award winning films are his representative works. In 2017, his TV and film editing master piece, The Rakugo Movie (2012) was successfully nominated for the International Emmy Awards in Comedy.