Wataru HIRANAMI, born in Nagano Prefecture in 1978, learned his craft from Kazuyoshi KUMAKIRI starting in 2003. After graduation, he became heavily involved in Japan's independent filmmaking scene.

KNOWN FOR

Baby Assassins Everyday!
2024
We Are Bad Barbers
2026
Time Loop Detective
2026
The Curse
2026
Nonoyu
2019
A Girl on the Shore
2021
Teasing Master Takagi-san
2024
Poca Pon
2026
Ichiko
2023
Sato and Sato
2025
I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn
2025
Hobonichi no Kaidan
2020

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Directing
61
Writing
4
Camera
1
Editing
1
2026
Poca Pon
Assistant Director
2026
The Curse
Assistant Director
2026
We Are Bad Barbers
Director
2026
Time Loop Detective
Director
2026
Time Loop Detective
Co-Director
2025
I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn
Assistant Director
2025
Insect
Director
2025
冬の朝
Assistant Director
2025
Sato and Sato
Assistant Director
2025
The Deepest Space in Us
Assistant Director
2025
Incomplete Chairs
Assistant Director
2024
Wakamusha
Assistant Director
2024
Desert of Namibia
Assistant Director
2024
Teasing Master Takagi-san
Assistant Director
2024
Baby Assassins Everyday!
Director
2023
Search Light
Director
2023
Ichiko
Assistant Director
2023
The Girls
Assistant Director
2023
Undercurrent
Assistant Director
2023
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Assistant Director
2023
Dreaming in Between
Assistant Director
2022
Amnesiac Love
Director
2022
Love Nonetheless
Assistant Director
2022
Manami 100%
Assistant Director
2022
I’m Glad to Be Alive
Assistant Director
2022
Straying
Assistant Director
2022
Extraneous Matter Complete Edition
Assistant Director
2021
A Girl on the Shore
Assistant Director
2021
The Pledge to Megumi
Assistant Director
2021
Double Red
Assistant Director
2021
Let Me Hear It Barefoot
Assistant Director
2021
Wadaiko Girls
Assistant Director
2020
Rolling Marbles
Assistant Director
2020
the believers
Director
2020
My Favorite Girl
Assistant Director
2020
Hobonichi no Kaidan
Director
2019
Domains
Assistant Director
2019
Over the Town
Assistant Director
2019
Minori, on the Brink
Assistant Director
2019
Junction 29
Assistant Director
2019
Wild Virgins
Assistant Director
2019
Nonoyu
Director
2018
Our Blue Moment
Assistant Director
2018
The Name
Assistant Director
2018
Goodbye Silence
Assistant Director
2017
Sweating the Small Stuff
Assistant Director
2017
Star Sand
Assistant Director
2016
Their Distance
Assistant Director
2016
Easter Nightmare
Director
2016
Kawagoe Highway
Assistant Director
2016
Same Old, Same Old
Assistant Director
2016
TSUMUGU
Assistant Director
2015
Dawn
Director
2013
Sad Tea
Assistant Director
2013
Just Another Live Tape
Assistant Director
2011
Owatteru
Assistant Director
2011
TUESDAYGIRL
Assistant Director
2011
I Catch a Terrible Cat
Assistant Director
2011
ashide
Assistant Director
2008
Naked of Defenses
Assistant Director
THE FILM IS MINE
Director