GIFT

Yuichiro Nakada

Born in Tokyo and raised in Chiba Prefecture, he graduated from the Department of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and went on to pursue a graduate degree in astrophysics at the University of Munich in Germany. After dropping out of graduate school, he worked at a foreign-owned manufacturing company and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan before entering the film industry. After taking a screenwriting workshop at Eiga 24-ku, he has continued to create independent films. He is a huge cat lover and lives with two cats he rescued himself.

His 2018 short film, “Goodbye my son,” was screened in over 70 countries worldwide, including at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2019, he joined the Shochiku team at the Kyoto Filmmakers Period Drama Lab. In 2022, he produced the short film “Gift,” which depicts the friendship between a Syrian refugee delivery driver and a Japanese boy from a single-mother household. That same year, he graduated from the International Business Film Academy at the Busan Film School as the only Japanese student that year. In September 2024, he founded Tamax Film Production LLC and is currently working on the planning and development of international co-productions.